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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Ann (Ward) Radcliffe (1764–1823)

Radcliffe, Ann. An English novelist; born in London, July 9, 1764; died in 1823. She was once very popular, but is not now read. Her best-known novel, still familiar by name as a type of the pseudo-mediæval, is ‘The Mysteries of Udolpho’ (1794), which ran through many editions. She also wrote: ‘The Castles of Athlin and Dunboyne’ (1789); ‘A Sicilian Romance’ (1790); ‘The Romance of the Forest’ (1791); and ‘The Italian’ (1797).