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Ann Radcliffe (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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In addition to her novels, Ann Radcliffe published A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany (1795). It recounts a continental journey made with her husband and includes copious observations of other tours to the English Lake District. The work became immediately popular, prompting a second edition that same year retitled The Journeys of Mrs. Radcliffe. Following a common practice of romance writers, Radcliffe interspersed the lengthy prose passages of her novels with her own verses or with those...

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