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Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist, a pioneer of Gothic fiction, and a minor poet.Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s. [1]
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (2008) Elena Gan , Society's Judgement (1840) Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin, The Red Flower (1883) Elizabeth Gaskell, The Doom of the Griffiths (1858), The Grey Woman and Lois the Witch; Theophile Gautier, The Mummy's Foot (1863) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
[80] However, since the mid-1980s, Russian gothic fiction as a genre began to be discussed in books such as The Gothic-Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760–1960, The Russian Gothic Novel and its British Antecedents and Goticheskiy roman v Rossii (The Gothic Novel in Russia).
The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796 across three volumes.Written early in Lewis's career, it was published before he turned twenty, and he withheld his name from the first edition.
It contains many lavish illustrations in the High Gothic style with Italianate influence, and is perhaps one of the most distinguished illustrated manuscripts created in Spain. The Golden Haggadah is now in the British Library and can be fully viewed as part of their Digitized Manuscript Collection MS 27210. [1] Scenes from the Book of Exodus
This unique selection includes many rare or inaccessible books published between 1789 and 1914 and covers a wide range of subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature. It is not yet publicly available online, due to size issues - the whole collection comes to around 4TB, including page images and marked-up XML.
The eighteenth-century Gothic novel is a genre of Gothic fiction published between 1764 and roughly 1820, which had the greatest period of popularity in the 1790s. These works originated the term "Gothic" to refer to stories which evoked the sentimental and supernatural qualities of medieval romance with the new genre of the novel .