Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
She's sort of like Salinger: Ann Radcliffe unexpectedly stopped writing later in her life. She was also super reclusive. (Source.)
Just like Signora Laurentini, Radcliffe was rumored to be dead once or twice. Think she enjoyed jumping out at people? (Source.)
Radcliffe is still duking it out with Horace Walpole as the King/Queen of the Gothic, but she's got Sir Walter Scott on her side: Sir Walter called her "the founder of a class or school." Winner, winner, chicken dinner (Source.)
Ooh-la-la! A French mini-series based on another of Radcliffe's books, The Italian, came out in 1977. (Source.)