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Midnight Bell
''The Midnight Bell'' is a gothic novel by Francis Lathom. It was first published anonymously in 1798 and has, on occasion, been wrongly attributed to George Walker. It was one of the seven "horrid novels" lampooned by Jane Austen in her novel ''Northanger Abbey''. Dear creature! How much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you. Have you, indeed! How glad I am! What are they all? I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. ''Castle of Wolfenbach'', '' Clermont'', '' Mysterious Warnings'', ''Necromancer of the Black Forest'', '' Midnight Bell'', '' Orphan of the Rhine'', and ''Horrid Mysteries''. Those will last us some time. Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? —''Northanger Abbey'', ch. 6 Subtitled "A German Story, Founded On Incidents in Real Life" it was first published in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Bell
''The Midnight Bell'' is a gothic novel by Francis Lathom. It was first published anonymously in 1798 and has, on occasion, been wrongly attributed to George Walker. It was one of the seven "horrid novels" lampooned by Jane Austen in her novel ''Northanger Abbey''. Dear creature! How much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you. Have you, indeed! How glad I am! What are they all? I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. ''Castle of Wolfenbach'', '' Clermont'', '' Mysterious Warnings'', ''Necromancer of the Black Forest'', '' Midnight Bell'', '' Orphan of the Rhine'', and ''Horrid Mysteries''. Those will last us some time. Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? —''Northanger Abbey'', ch. 6 Subtitled "A German Story, Founded On Incidents in Real Life" it was first published in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Lathom
Francis Lathom (14 July 1774 – 19 May 1832) was a British gothic novelist and playwright. Biography Francis Lathom was born on 14 July 1774, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where his father, Henry, conducted business for the East India Company and returning to England around 1777, settling near Norwich. He joined the Norwich Stock Company, a stock theatre company, in 1791 and began his literary career. Lathom was a precocious writer, beginning to write plays before he had turned eighteen. His first play, ''All in a Bustle'', was produced on the Norwich stage at the Theatre Royal Norwich in 1795; he would go on to write six other plays, including ''The Dash of the Day'' (1800), which went into three Norwich editions as well as a reprint published in Dublin. Lathom's first novel, ''The Castle of Ollada'' (1795) was published in two volumes, anonymously, by William Lane's Minerva Press. This work, like most of Lathom's later Gothic novels, owed much to the earlier works of such wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necromancer Of The Black Forest
''The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest'' is a Gothic novel written by Karl Friedrich Kahlert under the alias Lawrence Flammenberg and localized by Peter Teuthold that was first published in 1794. It is one of the seven 'horrid novels' lampooned by Jane Austen in ''Northanger Abbey''. It was once thought not to exist except in the text of ''Northanger Abbey''. The novel consists of a series of lurid tales of hauntings, violence, killings and the supernatural featuring the adventures of Hermann and Helfried and the mysterious wizard Volkert the Necromancer, who has seemingly come back from the dead, set in the Black Forest in Germany. It has recently been republished in a modern edition by Valancourt Books which confirms the identity of the book's German author. Originally said to have been "Translated from the German of Lawrence Flammenberg by Peter Teuthold," a number of its readers, including scholarly readers, assumed this to be a way of adding to the authenticit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1798 Novels
Events January–June * January – Eli Whitney contracts with the U.S. federal government for 10,000 muskets, which he produces with interchangeable parts. * January 4 – Constantine Hangerli enters Bucharest, as Prince of Wallachia. * January 22 – A coup d'état is staged in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). Unitarian Democrat Pieter Vreede ends the power of the parliament (with a conservative-moderate majority). * February 10 – The Pope is taken captive, and the Papacy is removed from power, by French General Louis-Alexandre Berthier. * February 15 – U.S. Representative Roger Griswold (Fed-CT) beats Congressman Matthew Lyon (Dem-Rep-VT) with a cane after the House declines to censure Lyon earlier spitting in Griswold's face; the House declines to discipline either man.''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p171 * March – th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
