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Ann Radcliffe

Died in 1823

Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), the daughter of a haberdasher and married to a journalist, published five novels in eight years, from 1789 to 1797. She gives her supernatural effects natural causes and keeps clear of the violence that Lewis introduces into the genre. Admired by Byron and Coleridge, she shaped the themes of early Romanticism, and Jane Austen parodied her. She stopped publishing after 1797, which gave rise to the rumour that she had gone mad.

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