The excerpt from The Romance of the Forest, her third novel, begins with the heroine, Adeline, retiring to her room. (Her last novel was published posthumously.) She was an only child, so she didn’t have hordes of nieces and nephews like Jane Austen, she lived in a childless though apparently happy marriage, so she left relatively small paper trail apart from her fiction, as illustrated by the fact that when a few years ago her rather strained letter to her mother-in-law came to light, it was a major discovery. She published in an extraordinary burst of creativity five novels nine years, the last of them appeared before she was thirty-three, and then she just stopped publishing, leading the audience to speculate that she went mad because of all the scary things she wrote.
Much is made of Jane Austen’s desire to stay anonymous, but Ann Radcliffe, even though she outsold Jane Austen (and probably every other contemporary author) and published under her own name, seems to be even better at this hiding in plain sight game. James Joyce – “A Por… on James Joyce – “A Portrait of t…Ĭonsider sunk costs… on Rudyard Kipling –…Ĭonsidering Sunk Cos… on Rudyard Kipling –… Sideshowtog on John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Roche… James Joyce – “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (ctd.).
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