5/19/2023 0 Comments Clara reeve the old english baron![]() ![]() It was dramatized in 1799 as Edmond, Orphan of the Castle. The Oxford World's Classics edition notes that it was a major influence in the development of Gothic fiction. ![]() ![]() A series of revelations, horrors and betrayals climax in a scene of single combat in which good battles evil for the return of the prize. The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that the castle seat and estate of his friend Lord Lovel have been usurped. "This Story is the literary offspring of The Castle of Otranto, written upon the same plan, with a design to unite the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient Romance and modern Novel, at the same time it assumes a character and manner of its own, that differs from both it is distinguished by the appellation of a Gothic Story, being a picture of Gothic times and manners." It was first published under this title in 1778, although it had anonymously appeared in 1777 under its original name of The Champion of Virtue. The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. As this Story is of a species which, though not new, is out of the common track, it has been thought necessary to point out some circumstances to the reader, which will elucidate the design, and, it is hoped, will induce him to form a favourable, as well as a right judgment of the work. ![]()
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