The Mysteries of Udolpho
Orphaned in Gascony and made the ward of an aunt who marries a Venetian adventurer, a young woman is carried off to a half-ruined castle in the Apennines where her guardian means to sign away her estates and something behind a black veil waits to be looked at. Radcliffe suspends terror across hundreds of pages of Alpine landscape and then accounts for every apparition by natural means, a discipline her imitators promptly abandoned. The book that made the Gothic a publishing phenomenon and gave Austen and Peacock their target.
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- influenced by ↑ The Castle of Otranto
- ↓ Nightmare Abbey
- ↓ Jane Eyre
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