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Hace 4 días · Branwell Brontë, self-portrait, 1840. The Brontës ( / ˈbrɒntiz /) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), are well-known poets and ...
Hace 3 días · At the height of the Gothic novel's popularity in the 1790s, the genre was almost synonymous with Ann Radcliffe, whose works were highly anticipated and widely imitated. The Romance of the Forest (1791) and The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) were particularly popular.
Beaucé,1869 - source: Gallica-BnF. Autrice des Mystères d’Udolphe (1794), la Londonienne Ann Radcliffe terrorisa lecteurs et lectrices de l’ère géorgienne avec ses romans à l’ambiance ...
Hace 3 días · CHAPTER XXVI. ST. GILES'S IN THE FIELDS. "On Newgate steps Jack Chance was found, And bred up near St. Giles's Pound."—Old Song.. St. Giles, the Patron Saint of Lepers—The Lepers' Hospital founded here—The Village of St. Giles in the Time of the Plantagenets, Tudors, and Stuarts—Executions at St. Giles's—The "Half-way House" on the Road to Tyburn—The Cage and the Pound—St. Giles ...
Hace 5 días · Edgar Allan Poe hace un guiño a la escritora Ann Radcliffe, nombrándola al principio del cuento y a un pintor, Thomas Sully. Radcliffe era conocida por crear un ambiente tenebroso y misterioso en sus relatos, así al nombrarla el autor nos sitúa en esa atmósfera de terror.
Hace 1 día · Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
Hace 5 días · Ursula K. Le Guin (born October 21, 1929, Berkeley, California, U.S.—died January 22, 2018, Portland, Oregon) was an American writer best known for tales of science fiction and fantasy imbued with concern for character development and language.
