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I just realized that something rather amsuing and perhaps a touch embrassing just happend to me. I was in this old/used book store becasue those are my faveorite kind and I saw this book on this discount rack called Lord Stephen's Lady by Janette Radcliffe, and well the book looked very Victorian and the title was very Victorian and I knew that there was a well known Victorian gothic writer name Radcliffe, and so I was quite excited about this find and wanted to read the book becasue I have been wanting to read Radcliffe ever sense I heard of her, because of my enjoyment for Victorian Lit. so I get the book and I read it, and for the most part I did enjoy the story and it met all the proper qualifications for a Victorian Gothic novel, but I was midely dissapointed becaue it was not quite as adventurous or exciting as I was lead to belive Radcliffe was.
So today I was doing some research for a topic I wanted to post on my Literary Forum The Silver Quill, and I came to uncover my mistake.
Jannet Radcliffe is not a Victorian writer at all, she is more or less a modern (from the 70's-80's) Histoical Romance writer, so yes I read a Romance novel and acutally enjoyed it as horrid as that is. But I will give her cridiet she wrote the genre well, for one whom is familliar with Victorian Lit. I never once suspected while reading the book that it was anything but, it fit in well enough with previous Victorian books I have read other then it just was not as quite as styliized and dramatic as I had always been lead to beleive my Radcliffe was.
The Redcliffe I was acutally looking for is in fact Jodelyn Radcliffe
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