The first lady of Gothic fiction, Ann Radcliffe had among her devotees Jane Austen, Mary and Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Matthew Lewis. Her darkly mysterious romances explore far-off locations, where the supernatural lurks behind every pine tree, where she takes her characters and readers on a journey through tangled forests and ruined castles , deep into the very heart of desire. 'The Mysteries of Udolpho' is perhaps her best known work, a work, parodied in Jane Austen’s 'Northanger Abbey'.
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