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Professor Michael Gamer featured in The Guardian: "The queen of suspense: how Ann Radcliffe inspired Dickens and Austen – then got written out of the canon"

The Guardian’s Sunday Observer recently published a full-page article announcing the upcoming Cambridge edition of The Works of Ann Radcliffe in eight volumes. Loved by Austen, Byron, Dickens, Keats, Scott, and Mary Shelley, Radcliffe pioneered popular Gothic fiction, taking cues from Horace Walpole and others to create cultural phenomenon still with us. You can read the full article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/the-queen-of-suspense-how-...