He wants his friend Count Morano to become Emily's husband and tries to force him upon her. Her aunt marries Montoni, a dubious nobleman from Italy. Emily, now orphaned, is forced by his wishes to live with her aunt, Madame Cheron, who shares none of Emily's interests and shows little affection for her.
Emily and Valancourt fall in love.Įmily's father succumbs to a long illness. During the journey, they encounter Valancourt, a handsome man who also feels an almost mystical kinship with the natural world. She accompanies him on a journey from their native Gascony, through the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean coast of Roussillon, over many mountainous landscapes. They grow still closer after her mother's death from illness.
Emily and her father share a notably close bond in a shared appreciation for nature. Aubert is the only child of a landed rural family whose fortunes are in decline. Emily also investigates a relationship between her father and the Marchioness de Villeroi, and its connection to Castle Udolpho.Įmily St. He and others frustrate Emily's romance with the dashing Valancourt. She is imprisoned in Castle Udolpho by Signor Montoni, an Italian brigand who has married her aunt and guardian Madame Cheron. Aubert, a young French woman orphaned by the death of her father.
The novel, set in 1584 in Southern France and Northern Italy, explores the plight of Emily St. For details she relied on travel books, which led her to make several anachronisms. Modern editors note that only about a third of the novel is set in the eponymous Gothic castle, while tone and style vary markedly between sections of the work, to which Radcliffe added extended descriptions of exotic landscapes in the Pyrenees and Apennines, and of Venice, none of which she had visited. The Mysteries of Udolpho is a quintessential Gothic romance, replete with incidents of physical and psychological terror: remote crumbling castles, seemingly supernatural events, a brooding, scheming villain and a persecuted heroine. Often cited as the archetypal Gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho appears prominently in Jane Austen's 1817 novel Northanger Abbey, where an impressionable young woman reader comes to see friends and acquaintances as Gothic villains and victims, with amusing results. Aubert, who suffers misadventures that include the death of her mother and father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle, and machinations of an Italian brigand. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho tells of Emily St. The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, appeared in four volumes on from G.
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