Radcliffe continues (pp. 109–10), ‘The poor nuns, thus nearly entombed during their lives, are, after their death, tied upon a board, in the clothes they die in, and with only their veils thrown over the face, are buried in the garden of the convent.’ In Bonn (pp. 125–6) she is critical of ‘relics… pretending to a connection with some parts of Christian history, which it is shocking to see introduced to consideration by any means so trivial and liable to ridicule’.

41. See Robert Mighall, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction, p. xviii; Chris Baldick, ed., The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, pp. xiii–xiv.

42. Rictor Norton, Mistress of Udolpho, pp. 66–70.

43. See Susan Moller Okin, ‘Patriarchy and Married Women’s Property in England: Questions on Some Current Views’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (winter 1983/4), pp. 121–39.

44. This can be seen from the following comment from Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765):

By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law; that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband: under whose wing, protection and cover, she performs everything.

Quoted by E. J. Clery in her essay ‘The Politics of the Gothic Heroine in the 1790s’ in Philip Martin and Robin Jarvis, eds., Reviewing Romanticism (London: Macmillan, 1992),

p. 78. As Clery goes on to comment, ‘the doctrine of coverture was one of those ancient feudal relics which were readily integrated within the new structure of capitalism’.

45. See Jacqueline Howard, Reading Gothic Fiction: A Bakhtinian Approach (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), pp. 64, 106–144.

46. English version by J. A. Underwood (London and Boston: Marion Boyars, 1982). In some editions, the novel goes under the title of The Enchanted.

FURTHER READING

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Frank, Frederick S., Gothic Fiction: A Master List of Twentieth-Century Criticism and Research (London: Meckler Corporation, 1988)

Rogers, Deborah D., Ann Radcliffe: A Bio-Bibliography (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1996)

The sickly taper, a website dedicated to Gothic bibliography, run by Fred Frank, Professor Emeritus of English, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania:http://www.toolcity.net/~ffrank/Index.html

BIOGRAPHY

Norton, Rictor, Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1999)

Talfourd, Thomas Noon, ‘Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs Radcliffe’ in Gaston de Blondeville, or the Court of Henry III Keeping Festival in Ardenne, a Romance (reprint edn New York: Arno Press, 1972), Vol. I, pp. 2–132

CRITICAL WORKS

Baldick, Chris, ‘Introduction’ in Chris Baldick, ed., The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. xi–xxiii

Birkhead, Edith, The Tale of Terror (London: Constable, 1921)

Butler, Marilyn, ‘The Woman at the Window: Ann Radcliffe in the Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen’ in Janet Todd, ed., Gender and Literary Voice (New York and London: Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc., 1980), pp. 128–48

Castle, Terry, ‘The Spectralization of the Other in The Mysteries of Udolpho’ in Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown, eds., The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature (New York and London: Methuen, 1987) pp. 231–53

Clery, E. J., ‘The Politics of the Gothic Heroine in the 1790s’ in Philip Martin and Robin Jarvis, eds., Reviewing Romanticism (London: Macmillan, 1992)

——, The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762–1800 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995)

DeLamotte, Eugenia C., The Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)

Ellis, Kate F., The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989)

Epstein, Lynne, ‘Mrs Radcliffe’s Landscapes: The Influence of Three Landscape Painters on Her Nature Descriptions’, Hartford Studies in Literature, Vol. 1, No.