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en-wikipedia-org-7789		Ann Radcliffe - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3642	446	69	Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English author and the pioneer of Gothic fiction. Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining Gothic fiction respectability in the 1790s.[1] Radcliffe was the most popular writer of her day and almost universally admired; contemporary critics called her the mighty enchantress and the Shakespeare of romance-writers, and her popularity continued through the 19th century.[2] Interest has revived in the early 21st century, with the publication of paperback reprints and three biographies.[3] Robinson, bought the copyright for The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) for £500, while Cadell and Davies paid £800 for The Italian (1797), making Radcliffe the highest-paid professional writer of the 1790s.[1] Her first successful novel was Romance of the Forest (1791). Radcliffe did not like the direction in which Gothic literature was heading – one of her later novels, The Italian, was written in response to Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7789.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7789.txt