[14] "The Castle of Otranto" was dramatized by Robert Jephson, under the title "The Count of Narbonne," put on at Covent Garden Theater in 1781, and afterward printed, with a dedication to Walpole.
[15] James Beattie, "Dissertation on Fable and Romance." "Argenius," was printed in 1621.
[16] "The Dictionary of National Biography" miscalls it "Earl of Canterbury," and attributes it, though with a query, to John Leland.
[17] See also, for a notice of this writer, Julia Kavanagh's "English Women of Letters."
[18] Maturin's "Melmoth the Wanderer" (1820) had some influence on the French romantic school and was utilized, in some particulars, by Balzac.
[19] Following is a list of Mrs. Radcliffe's romances: "The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne" (1789); "Sicilian Romance" (1790); "Romance of the Forest" (1791); "Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794); "The Italian" (1797); "Gaston de Blondville" (1826). Collections of her poems were published in 1816, 1834, and 1845.
[20] See "Childe Harold," canto iv, xviii.
[21] "Roundabout Papers," "A Peal of Bells." "Monk" Lewis wrote at sixteen a burlesque novel, "Effusions of Sensibility," which remained in MS.
[22] "O Radcliffe, thou once wert the charmer
Of girls who sat reading all night:
They heroes were striplings in armor,
Thy heroines, damsels in white."
—Songs, Ballads and Other Poems.
By Thos. Haynes Bayly, London, 1857, p. 141.