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CLARA REEVE (1729–1807)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 975 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLARA
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REEVE (1729–1807)  ,
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English novelist, daughter of
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William
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Reeve, a
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Suffolk clergyman, was
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born at
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Ipswich in 1729 . She was an industrious writer, and produced many
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works in
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prose and
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verse, including a
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history of the Progress of
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Romance (1785); but her only eminent success was the novel of The Old English
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Baron (1777), originally published under the
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title of The
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Champion of Virtue . In the history of the English novel she stands midway between
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Walpole and Mrs .
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Radcliffe . She died at Ipswich on the 3rd of
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December 1807 .

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