Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe (9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author who wrote gothic novels.

Ann Radcliffe

Attributed

• Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns,
  And as the portal opens to receive me,
  A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts
  Tells of a nameless deed.
  • Motto to the novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, presumed to be Radcliffe's own composition, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale,
  And in the distant ray what glimmering sail
  Bends to the storm?—Now sinks the note of fear!
  Ah? wretched mariners!—no more shall day
  Unclose his cheering eye to light ye on your way!
  • The Mysteries of Udolpho, Shipwreck; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 704.

Quotes about

• One thing that happens with gothic novels is the idea of the evil Other. That’s quite clear if you read Walpole or Radcliffe. It’s often an evil Italian or an evil Spaniard. Catholicism is mixed with that. It’s like these exotic evil Catholic people that are coming to pervert us.
  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia Interview with Vox (2020)

External links

• Works by Ann Radcliffe at Project Gutenberg
• Listing in 'The Literary Gothic'
• Listing in The Victorian Web
• Book description for Gaston de Blondeville at Valancourt Books
• Listing at Zittaw Press
• Biography, links, and e-texts at The Literary Gothic
• Biography and brief description of her writing