XV (November 1794), p. 281. Enfield’s comments about the novel’s ‘suspence’ (p. 280) and ‘rich vein of invention’ (p. 279), and his approving comments about vivid character portrayal and Emily’s ‘habit of self command’ and ‘steady firmness to her conduct’ (p. 280), far outweighed his criticism.

6. British Critic, Series 1, Vol. IV (August 1794), p. 121.

7. Critical Review, August 1794, in T. M. Raysor, ed., Coleridge’s Miscellaneous Criticism, pp. 356–7. See also Analytical Review, New Series, Vol. XIX (1794), p. 144.

8. ‘Ann Radcliffe’, Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. XCIII, Pt 2 (July 1823), p. 87, cited in Robert Miles, The Great Enchantress (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995), p. 9.

9. Ioan Williams, ed., Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968), p. 105.

10. It is likely that Radcliffe knew and admired Lee’s The Recess, but there is no evidence that she attended the school of Sophia and Harriet Lee, as is often stated. As Rictor Norton points out (Mistress of Udolpho, p. 47), the school opened in 1781, when Ann Radcliffe was seventeen – an age when most girls offered an education would leave school.

11. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (London: Dent, 1962), Pt I, pp. 315–16.

12. Thomas Noon Talfourd, ‘Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs Radcliffe’ in Ann Radcliffe, Gaston de Blondeville, or the Court of Henry III Keeping Festival in Ardenne, a Romance (1826) (reprint edn New York: Arno Press, 1972), Vol. I, pp. 105–6.

13.