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Ann Radcliffe

Born

in Holborn, England

July 09, 1764

Died

February 07, 1823

Genre

Horror, Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction

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Ann Ward Radcliffe of Britain wrote Gothic novels, including The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794).

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William Radcliffe, her father and a haberdasher, moved the family to Bath to manage a china shop in 1772. Radcliffe occasionally lived with her uncle, Thomas Bentley, in Chelsea in partnership with a fellow Unitarian, Josiah Wedgwood. Although mixing in some distinguished circles, Radcliffe seemingly made little impression in this society, and Wedgwood described her as "Bentley's shy niece."

In 1787, she married William Radcliffe, the Oxford graduate and journalist. He often came home late, and to occupy her time, she began to write and read her work when he returned. They enjoyed a childless but seemingly happy ma ...more

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Average rating: 3.43 · 27,857 ratings · 2,501 reviews · 420 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mysteries of Udolpho 3.40 avg rating — 14,871 ratings — published 1794 — 1341 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Italian by Ann Radcliffe, Robert Miles (Editor) 3.51 avg rating — 5,309 ratings — published 1796 — 313 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Sicilian Romance 3.37 avg rating — 3,551 ratings — published 1790 — 1809 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Romance of the Forest 3.48 avg rating — 2,531 ratings — published 1791 — 477 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 3.23 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 1789 — 140 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mysteries of Udolpho, Part I 3.34 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 19 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe 3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mysteries of Udolpho, Part II 3.53 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1794 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gaston de Blondeville by Ann Radcliffe, Frances Chiu (Editor) 3.13 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1826 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gothic Terror MEGAPACK: 17 Classic Tales by Ann Radcliffe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Henry James 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Záhady Udolfa (2 books)
by

Ann Radcliffe,

Jaroslav Hornát (Translator),

Eliška Hornátová (Translator)

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Quotes by Ann Radcliffe (?)

“A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho

tags: liberal-education

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“I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection, yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that I always feel revived, as by a new conviction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and, wanting these, I relapse into doubt, and too often into despondency.”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho

tags: insecurity, love

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“Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho

tags: assurance, inconsistancy, love, suspicion, unreasonable

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May 2015 Old School Classics Poll

Which book would you like to read for our May 2015 Old School Classics group read?

1868, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, 528 pages

11 votes, 29.7%

1818, Persuasion by Jane Austen, 249 pages

10 votes, 27.0%

1877, Black Beauty, 245 pages

4 votes, 10.8%

1837, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe

4 votes, 10.8%

1839, The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, 532 pages

3 votes, 8.1%

1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 438 pages

2 votes, 5.4%

1597, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, 283 pages

2 votes, 5.4%

1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 654 pages

1 vote, 2.7%

1848, La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas-fils, 382 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

37 total votes

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