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a doubt
the Queen-master
of the
Gothic
novel
was Ann
Radcliffe
(“Mother”
Radcliffe
as she
was called
by H.P.
Lovecraft).
Her masterpiece
was the
enormously
successful
Mysteries
of Udolpho,
which
has been
acknowledged
by some
as the
first
real fiction
best-seller.
Radcliffe’s
romance
it even
spawned
a parody
by Jane
Austen
in her
Northanger
Abbey.
Mysteries
of Udolpho
remains
the pinnacle
of the
Gothic
era, in
its haunting
landscapes,
wistful
characters,
and bleak
visionary
outlook
of a bygone
era filled
with all
the trappings
of the
Gothic
mode.
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