Clara Reeve

Clara Reeve
Portrait of Clara Reeve, c. 1770
Portrait of Clara Reeve, c. 1770
BornClara Reeve
(1729-01-23)23 January 1729
Ipswich, England
Died3 December 1807(1807-12-03) (aged 78)
Ipswich, England
OccupationNovelist
Period1769–1802
Notable worksThe Old English Baron

Clara Reeve (23 January 1729 – 3 December 1807) was an English novelist best known for the Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1777).[1] She also wrote an innovative history of prose fiction, The Progress of Romance (1785). Her first work was a translation from Latin, then an unusual language for a woman to learn. She was a near-contemporary of the bluestockings ladies of Elizabeth Montague's circle.[2]

  1. ^ Gary Kelly, "Reeve, Clara (1729–1807)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: OUP. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  2. ^ Kelly, G. (2002). Clara Reeve, Provincial Bluestocking: From the Old Whigs to the Modern Liberal State. University of Pennsylvania Press. Retrieved 18 June 2023.

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