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Radcliffian
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English
Alternative forms
en Radcliffean
Etymology
From en Radcliffe ian.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), English pioneer of the Gothic novel.
en 1924 w:Herman Melville w:Billy Budd London Constable & Co. 10 http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608511h.html And yet the cause, necessarily to be assumed as the sole one assignable, is in its very realism as much charged with that prime element of Radcliffian romance, the mysterious, as any that the ingenuity of the author of the Mysteries of Udolpho could devise. https://web.archive.org/web/20261012090611/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608511h.html 12 October 2026
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