The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve

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The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve

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The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve

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Clara Reeve (1729–1807) was an English novelist best known for The Old English Baron (1777), a Gothic fiction. She also wrote The Development of Romance (1785), a groundbreaking history of prose literature. Her first project was a translation from Latin, which was a difficult language for a woman to acquire at the time. She moved to Colchester with her mother and sisters when her father died. She made her debut as an author there, with the publication of The Phoenix (1772), a translation of John Barclay's historical allegory Argenis.

She produced numerous novels, but only one is remembered: The Champion of Virtue, subsequently known as The Old English Baron (1777), written in imitation of, or in competition with, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, with which it has been frequently printed. The original edition, titled The Old English Baron, was dedicated to Samuel Richardson's daughter, who is supposed to have assisted Reeve in revising and correcting the work. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was clearly influenced by the novel.

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ISBN 13 9780199549740
ISBN 10 0199549745
Title The Old English Baron
Author Clara Reeve
Series Oxford World's Classics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2008-07-10
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.