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So many of the social life's aspects have changed for women in the years. Starting with the right for education and ending with gender equality - all of this didn't happen overnight, and many badass women had to sacrifice their personal lives for a greater cause. Women's Equality Day celebrated on August 26th in the US, commemorates the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. It was certified in 1920, despite being introduced many years earlier in…

First time in Penguin Classics

Rare letter discovered by chance in archive reveals fraught family matters strikingly akin to one of her plots

“Well, ma’amselle, that is saying more than I expected of you: but I am not so much afraid of fairies, as of ghosts, and they say there are a plentiful many of them about the castle" (Ann Radcliffe) 🎨 Norman Lindsay #ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat #gothicspring

My 1812 edition of 'Mysteries of Udolpho.'

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The Mysteries of Udolpho is a Gothic romance by Mrs Radcliffe which was first published in four volumes in 1794. It was her fourth novel and proved to be her most popular. Its title is well-known today because it was famously satirised in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey which makes numerous refere

Books That Took Me Places - Angie's Diary

Anton Hähnischs miniature copy is based on Franz Xaver Winterhalters half-length oil sketch of June 1861 (400761: Royal Collection) showing the Princess in mourning for her grandmother, the Duchess of Kent, who had died on 16 March. She wears a black evening dress with a locket suspended from a black ribbon around her neck and jet hoop earrings.Born in Vienna, Anton Hähnisch studied at the Academy there before travelling to Berlin (1847 – 8), Frankfurt, Paris, London (1850 – 63), Rome...

The famous Gothic novel from Ann Radcliffe