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(If you haven’t already, click here to read part 1 of this series of blogs on gendered Gothic villains) Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance A (very) brief introduction to Ann Radcliffe Ann Radcliffe (1764 – 1823) was arguably the most popular novelist in eighteenth-century England. She is widely considered to be the originator of theContinue reading “How Villains Are Depicted Differently in Male- vs. Female-Authored Gothic Novels of the Eighteenth Century (Part 2 of 3)”