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Suffering like a heroine

image showing a woman in 18th century dress holding a lantern aloft and pulling back the bed curtain to find a shirtless man apparently stabbed to death in his sleep detail of etching, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, G.G. & J.Robinson of London, 1794.

"She was all but forgotten. Now the 18th-century author's republished novels reveal why she made such an extraordinary contribution to literature." Kliuless posted about author Anne Radcliffe, credited with inventing the psychological novel of suspense (plus two more women in publishing who have virtually been written out of the popular genres they helped create).

10/13/24
by taz

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