Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist, a pioneer of Gothic fiction, and a minor poet. 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...
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.