The Mysterious Warning: A German Tale is a novel by the English gothic novelist Eliza Parsons. It was first published in 1795 and is one of the seven "horrid novels" lampooned in Jane Austen's Northan
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Eliza Parsons was an English Gothic novelist, best known for The Castle of Wolfenbach and The Mysterious Warning. These are two of the seven Gothic titles recommended as reading by a character in Jane
The Mysterious Warning: A German Tale
…The Mysterious Warning: A German Tale is a novel by the English gothic novelist Eliza Parsons. It was first published in 1795 and is one of the seven "horrid novels" lampooned in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. Dear creature! How much I am obliged…
Frontispiece to The Mysterious Warning, 1796