Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist and a pioneer of Gothic fiction. Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s. Radcliffe was the most popular writer of...
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.