![]() ![]() This same aunt blocks Emily’s marriage plans to Valancourt, the man she loves, and takes her to Italy to live under the power of the tyrannical Montoni, the handsome fiend the aunt has just married. Her mother dies, then her father dies, and she ends up in the care of an aunt with about as much sympathy and tenderness as the hideous Mrs. ![]() Udolpho is the story of the worst year in Emily St. The Mysteries of Udolpho, when I had once begun it, I could not lay down again I remember finishing it in two days - my hair standing on end the whole time.” (Ch. Radcliffe’s works, and most of them with great pleasure. “ The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ![]() It was because of Austen’s praise of Radcliffe’s novel, that I purchased Udolpho as summer reading-and how could I not, when sensible Mr. A deranged nun cloistered away in a convent hidden in the forests of southern France tells the story of when she used to be a beautiful, love-crazed noblewoman, the climax of which is her confession to persuading a married man to poison his wife-and that is just one of the many bizarre twists of Ann Radcliffe’s exciting classic Gothic tale, The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance,¹ the novel that inspired Jane Austen’s Gothic parody Northanger Abbey. ![]()
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