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Ann Radcliffe
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Ann Radcliffe : [Gothic novels]
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe :
'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "Ancient and Modern History", though he did sometimes read a "novel or nonsense buke", like "Sir Charles Grandison". He had also read Alan Ramsay's "The Gentle Shepherd", and contrasted it ironically with the life of a real shepherd.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Sibbald Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : Mysteries of Udolpho
'And besides she [Mrs Cliffe] wd. lend me the first two vols of the mysteries of Udolpho before she had finished them herself ? a kind of generosity which quite dazzled my weak moral sense. I have read the mysteries; but am anxious to read them again ? being a worshipper of Mrs. Radcliffe.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : Mysteries of Udolpho
Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unwell today, & nervous. Read the mysteries of Udolpho ? by way of quieting my imagination? & heard the boys read Homer & Zenophon - & read some of Victor Hugo?s & Lamartine?s poetry ? his last song of Childe Harold. Miss Steers kindly sent a packet of French poetry to Mr. Boyd?s for me yesterday. Le dernier chant wants the Byronic character (- an inevitable want for a French composition ? ) and is not quite equal even to Lamartine.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Italian
"Attacking W[ordsworth]'s 'one-sidedness' in 1840, De Quincey records: 'One of Mrs Radcliffe's romances, viz. 'The Italian,' he had, by some strange accident, read, - read, but only to laugh at it ... '"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Italian
Finished the second volume of Mrs Radcliffe's 'Italian'. She is the best writer in her way of anybody I [have?] heard of. There is one scene in this volume which cannot be easily equalled. I mean the scene [...] in the passage when they are going to murder Helena the heroine of the story.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Italian
We got the last volume of the Italian, I think it does not equal the former production
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : [unknown]
'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English novelists] aloud to him; hence "I read Fielding and Smollett, Richardson, Radcliffe, 'Monk' Lewis, Thackeray and Dickens, under a running fire of comment and criticism from Rossetti".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hall Caine Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho
??in Mrs Radcliff?s romances. She was ? an extraordinary female, and her style of writing ? must be allowed to form an era in English romances. Her ignorance was nearly equal to her imagination and that is to say a great deal. Of the modest life on the continent (where scenes of all her romances ? are laid) she knew nothing. With all this, and more, her romances are irresistibly and dangerously delightful? The most extraordinary production of this period was the powerful and wicked romance of The Monk. The spirits raised by the Enchantress of Udolpho, compared to those evoked by Lewis, are like the attendants on Prospero in his enchanted island.?
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Maturin Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho
Frances Burney noted as having been 'an early reader' of Ann Radcliffe, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794).
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho
'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Italian
'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : A Sicilian Romance [and other novels]
'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelists "of considerable genius, as well as strict morals", who provided "a very pleasing relaxation from her severer studies" (Letters... to Mrs Montagu, vol 1, p. 69). According to him, she disliked realist fiction, though she made an exception for Burney's which she read with "increasing approbation more than once": her favourite was "Evelina" (Memoirs, p. 299). She also enjoyed Jane West (who dedicated "A Tale of the Times" to her) and Ann Radcliffe, who impressed her, according to Pennington, by "the good tendency of all her works, the virtues of her principal characters... and her accurate, as well as vivid delineation of the beauties of nature" (Memoirs, p. 300). She thought "A Sicilian Romance" "elegant" and praised its "good" moral (Letters... to Mrs Montagu, Vol III, p. 323).'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book
Anne Radcliffe : Italian, The
' I would advise you to read Mrs R's "Italian" in your own chamber, not to lose the picturesque images with which it abounds.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
Ann Radcliffe : A Sicilian Romance
'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latter (w'ch John was now reading) & Mrs M being reading the other, I got Mrs Radcliffe's novel of the "Sicilian Romance" from the Library there, which I this day began reading & was much pleased with.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho
'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (the 2 first of w'ch I had read before we left Chichester) & afterw'ds Keate's "Sketches of Nature", from the library.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The
'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she read the Italian'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Clara Mary Jane (Claire) Clairmont Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The
'Read the Italian & talk all day'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794
'I took Radcliffe's "Tour" to the Library; I was not so much entertained with it, as I expected tho her descriptions are very fine.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho
'Brought Mrs Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho"; I wish I had not read it before, for upon a second reading it loses half its intrest'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho
'I read in the evening the "Mysteries of Udolpho" which Lucy sent me'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Wynne Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Italian
'Finished the "Italian"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : A journey made in the summer of 1794
'Read Mrs. Radcliffe's "Tour to the Lakes". Much might be expected from this Lady's well known powers of description, exerted on so congenial a theme...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : Mysteries of Udolpho, The
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley] 'Posthumous Works. 3. Sorrows of Werter Don Roderick - by Southey Gibbons Decline & fall. x Paradise Regained x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2 x Lara New Arabian Nights 3 Corinna Fall of the Jesuits Rinaldo Rinaldini Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds Hermsprong Le diable boiteux Man as he is. Rokeby. Ovid's Meamo[r]phoses in Latin x Wordsworth's Poems x Spenser's Fairy Queen x Life of the Philipps x Fox's History of James II The Reflector Wieland. Fleetwood Don Carlos x Peter Wilkins Rousseau's Confessions. x Espriella's Letters from England Lenora - a poem Emile x Milton's Paradise Lost X Life of Lady Hamilton De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael 3 vols. of Barruel x Caliph Vathek Nouvelle Heloise x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia. Waverly Clarissa Harlowe Robertson's Hist. of america x Virgil xTale of Tub. x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing x Curse of Kehama x Madoc La Bible Expliquee Lives of Abelard and Heloise The New Testament Coleridge's Poems. 1st vol. Syteme de la Nature x Castle of Indolence Chattertons Poems. x Paradise Regained Don Carlos. x Lycidas. x St Leon Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud Burkes account of civil society x Excursion Pope's Homer's Illiad x Sallust Micromegas x Life of Chauser Canterbury Tales Peruvian letters. Voyages round the World Pluarch's lives. x 2 vols of Gibbon Ormond Hugh Trevor x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War Lewis's tales Castle of Udolpho Guy Mannering Charles XII by Voltaire Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin
Mary-Anne Radcliffe : Manfrone; or, the One-handed Monk
'Friday Nov. 4th. Rise at nine. Finish a novel called Manfrone or the one handed monk by Mrs. Radcliffe.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : Gaston de Blondeville
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841: 'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end italics] read "Gaston de Blondeville". perhaps you don't know it, but I am, have been .. in all sorts of tenses -- a profound reader of romances. I have read Gaston [...] The fault of Mrs Radcliffe's preceeding works was her want of courage in not following back the instincts of our nature to their possible causes. She made the instinct toward the supernatural too prominent, to deny & belie the thing [...] Can anything be more irritating than the Key to her mysteries [...]? 'Just in proportion to the degree of this disagreeableness, is Gaston better & nobler in [italics]design[end italics]. Inasmuch as the ghost is real, it is excellent, but inasmuch as the book hath three volumes (or two) -- it is naught. It did hang upon me (with all its advantages as a ghost story) with a weight from which her preceeding works are sacred. It quite disappointed me! [...] the whole appeared to me heavy & not impressive -- &, what is strange, not so terrible with its actual marvels, as were the waxen mimicries of the Castle of Otranto.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : The Mysteries of Udolpho
'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the interest in I have in him, his style, in my mind is so beautifully refined and there is such exquisite pathos and quaint humour, and such an awfully [underlined] deep knowledge of human nature, not that hard unloving detestable, and, as it is purely one sided (or wrong [underlined] sided) false reading of it that one finds in Thackeray. He reminds me in many things of Charles Lamb, and of heaps of our rare old English humourists, with their deep pathetic nature--and one faculty he possesses beyond any writer I remember (not dramatic, for then I would certainly remember Shakespeare, and others on further though perhaps) viz. that of exciting you to the highest pitch without on any [underlined] occasion that I am aware of making you feel by his catastrophe ashamed of having been excited. What I mean is, if you have ever read it, such a case as occurs in the "Mysteries of Udolpho" where your disgust is beyond all expression on finding that all your fright about the ghostly creature that has haunted you throughout the volumes has been caused by a pitiful wax image! [...] And no Author I know does [underlined] try to work upon them [i.e. the passions] more, apparently with no [underlined] effort to himself. I cannot satisfy myself as to whether I like his sort of Essays contained in the twice told tales best, or his more finished works such as Blithedale romance. Every touch he adds to any character gives a higher interest to it, so that I should like the longer ones best, but there is a concentration of excellence in the shorter things and passages that strike, in force like daggers, in their beauty and truth, so that I generally end in liking that best which I have read last [...] There are beautiful passages in Longfellow, above all, as far as my knowledge goes in the Golden Legend, some of which in a single reading impressed themselves on my memory.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret De Quincey Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : novels
'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth is contemporary opinion, and tales which delighted Burke, Fox, and Sheridan, must, when compared with the novels then published, have possessed a singular amount of merit.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Burke Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : novels
'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth is contemporary opinion, and tales which delighted Burke, Fox, and Sheridan, must, when compared with the novels then published, have possessed a singular amount of merit.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles James Fox Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : novels
'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth is contemporary opinion, and tales which delighted Burke, Fox, and Sheridan, must, when compared with the novels then published, have possessed a singular amount of merit.'
