Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann, née Ward, English novelist, born in London; wrote a series of popular works which abound in weird tales and scenes of old castles and gloomy forests, and of which the best known is the “Mysteries of Udolpho” (1764‒1823).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Radcliffe * Radcliffe, John