Ann Radcliffe, Gaston de Blondeville

Caroline Webber (Independent Scholar - Australia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.06: English Writing and Culture of the Romantic Period, 1789-1837.
Vol. editors: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Daniel Robinson (Widener University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1797

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Gothic & Ghosts
Novel

Resources

Ann Radcliffe’s last novel, Gaston de Blondeville: or the Court of Henry III Keeping Festival in Ardenne, a romance was first published posthumously in 1826, three years after her death. It appeared in four volumes, along with a “Memoir” (which included extracts from her travel journals) written by Thomas Noon Talfourd, a series of explanatory notes accompanying the Gaston novel, a lengthy metrical poem called St. Albans Abbey, and several other previously unpublished poems of varying themes, lengths and quality.

Until the publication of the posthumous works, the last the reading public had heard of Mrs Radcliffe was almost thirty years earlier, when The Italian was published in 1797. …

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Citation: Webber, Caroline. "Gaston de Blondeville". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 May 2007 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5010, accessed 11 March 2025.]

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