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Ann Radcliffe (July 9, 1764 – February 7, 1823) was an English author, a pioneer of the gothic novel.
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Ann Radcliffe was the most popular writer of her day and almost universally admired. Contemporary critics called her the mighty enchantress and the Shakespeare of romance-writers
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It is a curious coincidence of literary history that the stars that reigned in the year of the nativity of The Castle of Otranto (1764) saw the birth of Mrs.

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Ann Radcliffe, née Ward (1764-1823), English novelist, born in London and privately educated. Radcliffe's tales, characterized by mystery plots, an atmosphere of terror, and poetically intense landscapes, helped to establish the vogue for the so-called Gothic novel. For a time she was the most popular novelist in England. The group of romantic novels for which she became most famous includes The Romance of the Forest (3 volumes, 1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (4 volumes, 1794), and The Italian (3 volumes, 1797). The Mysteries of Udolpho is her most popular work; Jane Austen satirized the work in her novel Northanger Abbey and contrasted the frivolous mystery of the gothic novel with the reality of human foibles.