![]() She achieved a wide fame with her third novel, The Romance of the Forest (1791), a tale of 17th-century France. Her first novels, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789) and A Sicilian Romance (1790) were published anonymously. It is thought that she would read her writings to him and that he encouraged her to write. Ann, spending most of her time at home with no children or husband began to develop a literary career to make use of this spare time. The couple’s marriage was happy but childless. Ann married journalist William Radcliffe, an Oxford graduate, the owner and editor of the English Chronicle, in 1788. Her father was a haberdasher and the family eventually moved to Bath and lived in well to do gentility. For writer who illuminated her times very little is known of her life. ![]() Ann Radcliffe was born Ann Ward on 9th July 1764 in Holborn, central London to parents William and Ann. ![]()
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