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Literary Notes: No mad genius but a Radical Dissenter

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990416
Author:Rictor Norton

ANN RADCLIFFE, author of the Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, was one of the most famous women of her time - and the least known. She kept no diaries, other than some travel journals, and her contemporaries left virtually no reminiscences of her. Her life resembles a manuscript discovered in a Gothic novel: its leaves faded or indecipherable, pages torn in half, whole chapters missing, spurious passages by other hands.

Contemporary literary circles, finding it intolerable that the most famous woman writer in England should live a completely sequestered life, amused themselves with ...

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