Clara Reeve
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Clara Reeve was an English novelist best known for the Gothic novel The Old English Baron. She also wrote an innovative history of prose fiction, The Progress of Romance. Her first work was a translat
Portrait of Clara Reeve, c. 1770
The Old English Baron
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The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under this title in 1778, although it had anonymously appeared in May 1777 under its original n
Clara Reeve
…Clara Reeve (23 January 1729 – 3 December 1807) was an English novelist best known for the Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1778). She also wrote an innovative history of prose fiction, The Progress of Romance (1785). Her first work was a translation from Latin, at the time…
First edition title page
Frontispiece illustration to the 1778 edition