Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
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Ann Radcliffe was born Ann Ward in England on July 9, 1764. She was the only child of William Ward and Anne Oates Ward. In 1788 she married William Radcliffe. They had no children. Ann published The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne in 1789. Other works include A Sicilian Romance, The Romance of the visa mer Forest, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and The Italian. She found much success with The Romance of the Forest and it established her as a Gothic novelist. Her later novels influenced other authors including Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, and Mary Wollstonecraft. She died on February 7, 1823 from respiratory problems. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Anne Ward Radcliffe. Wikimedia Commons.
Verk av Ann Radcliffe
Udolphos mysterier : en romantisk berättelse, interfolierad med några poetiska stycken. Vol. 2 (1931) 32 exemplar
Udolphos mysterier : en romantisk berättelse, interfolierad med några poetiska stycken. Vol. 1 (1931) 27 exemplar
The Complete Northanger Horrid Novel Collection (9 Books of Gothic Romance and Horror) (2013) 22 exemplar
The Complete Novels of Mrs Ann Radcliffe: Gaston De Blondeville; The Italian; The Mysteries of Udolpho; A Sicilian… (1987) 18 exemplar
A journey made in the summer of 1794, through Holland and the Western frontier of Germany (1795) (1975) 12 exemplar
The Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe: The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, A Sicilian Romance, The Romance of the Forest,… (2012) 6 exemplar
Bibliotheca Dracula. 9 Romane in 3 Bänden: Frankenstein - Dracula - Im Haus des Grafen Dracula - Melmoth - Der… (1978) 5 exemplar
The mysteries of Udolpho : a romance; interspersed with some pieces of poetry, volume III (2010) 4 exemplar
Mrs. Radcliffe's novels. The Italian, The romance of the forest, The mysteries of Udolpho (2007) 3 exemplar
Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula (2017) 3 exemplar
The novels of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe 2 exemplar
St. Alban's Abbey: With Some Poetical Pieces 2 exemplar
The Gothic Terror MEGAPACK: 17 Classic Tales 1 exemplar
The Female Advocate, Or An Attempt To Recover The Rights Of Women From Male Usurpation (2014) 1 exemplar
The Poetry of Ann Radcliffe 1 exemplar
Udolphos mysterier : en romantisk berättelse, interfolierad med några poetiska stycken. Vol. 2 1 exemplar
[Works] 1 exemplar
British Novelists: Vol. VI 1 exemplar
British Novelists: Vol. V 1 exemplar
Gaston De Blondeville Volume IV 1 exemplar
Gaston De Blondeville Volume III 1 exemplar
Gaston De Blondeville Volume II 1 exemplar
Gaston De Blondeville Volume I 1 exemplar
MISTERELE DIN UDOLPHO VOL2 1 exemplar
MISTERELE DIN UDOLPHO 1 exemplar
Anglický gotický román 1 exemplar
The Mysteries of Udolpho, condensed 1 exemplar
The Mysteries of Udolpho Volume 1 1 exemplar
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Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765-1840 (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 81 exemplar
Three eighteenth century romances: The castle of Otranto; Vathek; The romance of the forest (1931) — Bidragsgivare — 43 exemplar
Ladies of the Gothics: Tales of Romance and Terror by the Gentle Sex (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 38 exemplar
The Queen’s Story Book — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Anthology of Romanticism Volume Two: Selections From The Pre-Romantic Movement — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
The King's Story Book — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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- Radcliffe, Ann
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Radcliffe, Ann Ward
- Andra namn
- Mrs. Radcliffe
- Födelsedag
- 1764-07-09
- Avled
- 1823-02-17
- Begravningsplats
- St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London, England, UK
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (för karta)
- England, UK
- Födelseort
- Holborn, London, England, UK
- Dödsort
- England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- London, England, UK
- Yrken
- novelist
poet - Relationer
- Ward, William (father)
Radcliffe, William (husband)
Lee, Sophia (friend) - Kort biografi
- Mrs. Radcliffe was the most popular writer of her day! She was born Ann Ward and in 1787 married journalist William Radcliffe. She created six spooky novels with a blend of the supernatural, morals, romantic descriptions of landscape, and drama that British readers just could not get enough of. Although she was not the first to write Gothic fiction, she's considered a pioneer of the genre and a major influence on many other writers. (See for example, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.)
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Mrs. Radcliffe i Gothic Literature (februari 2022)
The Mysteries of Udolpho i Gothic Literature (september 2018)
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe - lyzard tutoring SqueakyChu i 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (maj 2016)
1001 Group Read May, 2012: The Mysteries of Udolpho i 1001 Books to read before you die (september 2012)
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The Mysteries of Udolpho came within pages of being the third book off one of my reading lists that was left unfinished. Ann Radcliffe's novel relating the ordeals of Emily St. Aubert is an exasperating slog which taxes your patience through the tedious repetition of mundane details intended to elicit sympathy for her melancholy protagonist and multiple ineffective attempts to create mystery by the withholding of crucial facts by an otherwise intrusive narrator.
The first hundred pages of the book see Emily lose both parents in a manner more akin to batteries draining than the effects of disease, as well as Valancourt, the man who wins her lifelong affection despite the lack of meaningful interaction between them leading up to her infatuation. Her tearful brooding over these tragedies occupies all her spare time during this period.
After fulfilling her father's dying wish by burning his secret letters, Emily is placed in the care of her aunt, the first of several characters masquerading as wealthy while seeking to enrich themselves through favorable marriages to someone of actual wealth. Forced to travel from her native France to Venice, Emily is stalked by Count Morano, another charlatan who is so besotted with Emily that he forgets he is royalty and she nothing. His repeated proposals are enthusiastically supported by her aunt's villainous husband Montoni, who conceives to force Emily to wed the Count despite her strenuous objections. In the first but not last unbelievable turn of events, Emily unwittingly agrees to wed Morano while believing she is discussing a different topic.
On the morning before her coerced nuptials, Emily is again forced to flee in the company of her aunt and uncle, this time to Udolpho castle, where she and her aunt are held prisoner by Montoni and his despicable henchmen. During her captivity, she sees a sight so horrible she faints but tells no one what it is, including the reader and alternates between brooding over her lost love Valancourt, investigating the mysterious music and singing outside her window, and vacillating whether to sign over her birth right to Montoni in exchange for her freedom.
Unfortunately, you are only halfway through the novel at this point, and have another three hundred pages of—among myriad other nuisances—Emily's constant tears, tiresome references to her father's mysterious letters and the sight at Udolpho that caused Emily to faint, a chateau haunted by mysterious music and singing (yes, again) and a dying, disreputable nun with a secret upon which the whole novel turns.
Most disappointing about The Mysteries of Udolpho is that it is actually an entertaining and ultimately redeeming story ruined by the way Radcliffe goes about supposedly building mystery and suspense through tiresome repetition of known and uninteresting facts (which adds a significant number of unnecessary pages) and summarizing events she should have instead spent time narrating, as well as swooping in like Agatha Christie's Poirot to reveal—in two unsatisfying pages near the very end of the book—the mystery of Emily's father's letters and the horrid sight at Udolpho. If that is typical of the gothic style, this will be my only venture into the genre.
If you keep in mind the era this novel was written in, the level of sophistication of readers of the time and perhaps the lack of entertainment alternatives that would leave readers no choice but to tolerate writing of this nature, you might enjoy this book more than I did.… (mer)