Radcliffe romance of the forest5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Adeline finds herself at the mercy of the abbey's proprietor, a libidinous Marquis whose attentions finallyįorce her to contemplate escape to distant regions. They take refuge in a ruined abbey in south-eastern France, where sinister relics of the past - a skeleton, a manuscript, and a rusty dagger - are discovered in concealed rooms. Set in Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fate of its heroine Adeline, who is mysteriously placed under the protection of a family fleeing Paris for debt. ![]() The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe's later works, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. ![]()
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