Clara Reeve | |
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![]() Portrait of Clara Reeve, c. 1770 | |
Born | Clara Reeve 23 January 1729 Ipswich, England |
Died | 3 December 1807 Ipswich, England | (aged 78)
Occupation | Novelist |
Period | 1769–1802 |
Notable works | The 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, at the time a language unusual for a woman to learn. She was a near-contemporary of the bluestockings ladies of Elizabeth Montague's circle.[2]
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