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Radcliffe, Ann
(née Ann Ward). Born July 9, 1764, in London; died there Feb. 7, 1823. English writer. Radcliffe was educated at home. She won broad popularity for A Sicilian Romance (1790) and The Romance of the Forest (1791) and especially for The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and The Italian (1797). In her Gothic novels Radcliffe masterfully created an atmosphere of terror and mystery, but the element of rationality is also strong in her novels. Everything mysterious is fully explained by real phenomena. The romantics adopted the strong-willed, unrestrainedly passionate “hero-villain,” definitively portrayed in Radcliffe’s works. REFERENCESIstoriia angliiskoi literatury, vol. 1, fasc. 2. Moscow-Leningrad, 1945.MacIntyre, C. Ann Radcliffe in Relation to Her Times. New Haven-London, 1920. Varma, D. P. The Gothic Flame. [London, 1957]. Birkhead, E. The Tale of Terror. New York, 1963. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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