Ann Radcliffe

Few writers have shaped the atmosphere of Gothic fiction as powerfully as Ann Radcliffe. Ann Radcliffe was an influential English novelist best known for her Gothic novels, including 'The Mysteries of Udolpho' and 'The Italian', which helped define the genre in the late eighteenth century. Born Ann Ward in 1764 in Holborn, London, she grew up in a respectable family and later married journalist and Oxford graduate...