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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: 3.46 · 33,828 ratings · 3,498 reviews · 602 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mysteries of Udolpho 3.43 avg rating — 17,407 ratings — published 1794 — 722 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 (Introduction) 3.53 avg rating — 6,270 ratings — published 1796 — 303 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 3.38 avg rating — 4,949 ratings — published 1790 — 296 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 3.51 avg rating — 3,210 ratings — published 1791 — 249 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 3.25 avg rating — 498 ratings — published 1789 — 105 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 4.16 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2012 — 13 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 3.42 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1794	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 3.61 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1794 — 60 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) 3.07 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1826 — 66 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
	mysteries of udolpho (BBC radio 4 extra adaptation) 3.48 avg rating — 48 ratings	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)
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Ann Radcliffe,

Cristina Vonghizas (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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Polls

2015 Fourth Quarter Long Read

1978, The Stand by Stephen King, 1153 pages

27 votes, 18.0%

1853, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 663 pages

25 votes, 16.7%

1853, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1017 pages

16 votes, 10.7%

1879, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 796 pages

15 votes, 10.0%

1868, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages

13 votes, 8.7%

1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages

11 votes, 7.3%

1924, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 706 pages

10 votes, 6.7%

1812, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, 880 pages

9 votes, 6.0%

1982, North and South by John Jakes, 812 pages

7 votes, 4.7%

1915, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

6 votes, 4.0%

1973, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, 776 pages

4 votes, 2.7%

1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages

3 votes, 2.0%

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

3 votes, 2.0%

1901, Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell, 816 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1948, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, 721 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1876, Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 796 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

150 total votes

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