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Mistress of Udolpho - Life of Ann Radcliffe (Paperback)
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Mistress of Udolpho - Life of Ann Radcliffe (Paperback)
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This is the first full-scale biography of the famous Gothic
novelist, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), author of The Mysteries of
Udolpho (1794), the world's first "best-seller." The author has
unearthed new information about Radcliffe, and gives us a
contextual picture of Radcliffe that is unlikely to be superseded.
He clarifies Radcliffe's emergence from a Dissenting Unitarian,
rather than a conventional Anglican, background. This discovery
redraws the literary historical map to include Radcliffe within the
circle of other women writers in radical Dissenting backgrounds
(such as Wollstonecraft and Barbauld). Norton fully documents
Radcliffe's childhood and family, investigates the rumors of her
madness and her extraordinary reclusiveness, and evaluates the
reasons for her probable mental breakdown. But it also constitutes
a "cultural history" of a writing woman, demonstrating her place
within radical culture and literary tradition, examining her
crucial role in the rise of the professional woman writer. Her
novels are analyzed mainly in the context of her biography and her
sources, and some new dates for her posthumous work are
established.
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