Talk:Ann Radcliffe

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I just want to say that when I came to this article I found a lot of nonsense in it. I looked in the history to see what had happened. I tried to fix some of the problems, but accidentally re-instated some nonsense which had previously been removed. I think I've fixed it now, and will come back to the article later. But I want to say that I didn't make the mess on purpose. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashton1983 (talk • contribs) 13:06, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Why does it say there are no images of her when the article is illustrated with an image?KD Tries Again (talk) 20:36, 6 November 2012 (UTC)KD Tries Again
 * Yeah, Imma fix that! Rainspeaker (talk) 17:37, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

passage from Gothic Fiction
I adapted some Radcliffe-specific information from the Gothic fiction page. CapnZapp (talk) 19:01, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia commons image is misattributed as a portrait of Ann Radcliffe
I inserted a thumbnail of the image into the infobox in the Ann Radcliffe article, but subsequently removed it after discovering it was a portrait from a later era of a Princess Helena, held by the Royal Collection Trust. https://www.rct.uk/collection/420323/princess-helena-1846-1923 Please see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Painting_of_Ann_Radcliffe.jpg Cliffewiki (talk) 20:11, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for removing that image, and for finding its real source! I also removed that painting from the article back in December, so I am surprised it reappeared. The woman in the painting is so obviously from the wrong era, it is a strange mistake. I have put back the standard image of Radcliffe. I'm not entirely sure where this ink drawing portrait of Radcliffe comes from but I do recognize it as the standard image of her and it is used, e.g., here and here so I am confident it is accurate. ~ oulfis 🌸 (talk) 21:53, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh lol I see that you literally said you added it, which is how it reappeared -- that does make sense if you were just going off the image's attribution. Thank you for starting the process to rename the file, that will help prevent future mistakes. ~ oulfis 🌸 (talk) 22:00, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Yes, let's hope! What's even funnier is that this all started after I watched a 2007 PBS version of Northanger Abbey with Felicity Jones as the young Catherine Morland, who's addicted to Ann Radcliffe novels. I had to look her up! Seeing no image, I searched wikimedia and came up with the one in question -- owned by an apparent descendant (or practical joker?) who somehow uploaded it without an account. Cliffewiki (talk) 22:42, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Volumes for A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794
By my research, the second edition of this travel narrative (which also came out in 1795) was two volumes, but the first edition was one volume (see the "physical desc." field). Since the first edition was a quarto rather than octavo, its pages were twice as big as the second edition, meaning it could fit the same material into only one book. Probably it was most commonly printed as two volumes (a quarto is pretty big and fancy for a travel book!) but I think usually we give this information for the first edition, so I have changed the description to say 1 vol. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 00:29, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

What does this mean?
"the sublime motivated the protagonist to create an image that was more idealistic within the plot." Does this sentence "work", make sense, for native speakers? To me it looks absurd, mixed up. 2A02:3035:C14:B03F:1:0:3F09:B5 (talk) 16:34, 25 May 2022 (UTC)