The mother of gothic fiction.
Anne Radcliffe is considered the mother of gothic fiction with her work, The Mysteries of Udolpho, published in 1794. This monumental book—the first widely popular gothic novel—encompasses Romanticism ideals with gothic concepts of the sublime and the supernatural.
The eighteenth-century author introduced readers to specific tastes. Her gothic prose won favor with readers of the era by including dark themes, foreboding structures, and otherworldly elements and intertwining them with the supernatural and the sublime…
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