6/27/2023 0 Comments The mysteries of udolpho![]() Her mother dies, then her father dies, and she ends up in the care of an aunt with about as much sympathy and tenderness as the hideous Mrs. ![]() Udolpho is the story of the worst year in Emily St. The Mysteries of Udolpho, when I had once begun it, I could not lay down again I remember finishing it in two days - my hair standing on end the whole time.” (Ch. Radcliffe’s works, and most of them with great pleasure. ![]() “ The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. It was because of Austen’s praise of Radcliffe’s novel, that I purchased Udolpho as summer reading-and how could I not, when sensible Mr. ![]() A deranged nun cloistered away in a convent hidden in the forests of southern France tells the story of when she used to be a beautiful, love-crazed noblewoman, the climax of which is her confession to persuading a married man to poison his wife-and that is just one of the many bizarre twists of Ann Radcliffe’s exciting classic Gothic tale, The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance,¹ the novel that inspired Jane Austen’s Gothic parody Northanger Abbey. ![]()
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