Ann Radcliffe (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Ann Ward Radcliffe was considered the greatest romanticist of her age, both for her imaginative plotting and for her poetic prose. Her novels became a minor landmark in English literary history because their author formulated a gothic school of writing that owed more to her invention than to the influence of contemporaries in the same genre. Her tales of terror are unblurred by the awkward supernaturalism of Horace Walpole, the sentimentality of Clara Reeves, or the turgid horrors of Matthew Gregory Lewis.
Ann Ward, who included among her ancestors the celebrated classical...
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