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The mind of Osbert was torn by the most cruel conflict: filial duty, honour, revenge, commanded him to go; filial love, regret, and pity, entreated him to stay. Mary fell at his feet, and clasping his knees with all the wild energy of grief besought him to relinquish his fatal purpose, and save his last surviving parent.
Ann Radcliffe was born Ann Ward in England on July 9, 1764. She was the only child of William Ward and Anne Oates Ward. In 1788 she married William Radcliffe. They had no children. Ann published The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne in 1789. Other works include A Sicilian Romance, The Romance of the Forest, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and The Italian.
It was long ere Mary returned to life, and she returned only to a sense of wretchedness. The critical situation of Matilda can scarcely be felt in its full extent. Torn by the conflict of opposite interests, her brain was the seat of tumult, and wild dismay. Which ever way she looked, destruction closed the view.
28 de mar. de 2017 · ebook version of The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland story. The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland story. (Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823.) [4],280p. ; 12⁰. (London :) printed for T. Hookham,1789. Anonymous. By Ann Radcliffe. Reproduction of original from the Harvard University Houghton Library.
15 de oct. de 2012 · The Novel. The gothic novel The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne is Ann Radcliffe's first work, published in 1789. The novel is a set in a powerful landscape which became familiar in her later work, with complex clan feuds and mysterious romantic intrigues played out against a backdrop of ruined medieval castles and rugged Scottish coastlines.
Each of the characters can be defined by their passions: The present Earl of Athlin, Osbert, is driven by a passionate desire to avenge his father's murder at the hand of Malcolm, the Baron of Dunbayne. His sister, Mary, is ever swooning and fainting in an attempt to resist her passion for Alleyn, a highlander not of noble birth.
Title:: The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne. A highland story. : [Two lines of verse] / By Anne Rattcliffe [sic], authoress of A Sicilian romance, Romance of the forest, Mysteries of Eudolpho, &c.
