Gutenberg Australia offers Eleanor Sleath's 'Orphan of the Rhine'. One can get reprints of all 9 of these (in one lump) sent to a Kindle for 99pence/cents via Amazon - under the title 'The Complete Northanger Horrid Novel Collection' - yet it's frustrating to find that our main online sources offer a few of these authors' works but not the ones mentioned above. (This is not an attempt to fend off Version 99 of Pride and Prejudice.) Orphan of the Rhine (1798) by Eleanor Sleath The Midnight Bell (1798) by Francis Lathom Horrid Mysteries (1796) by the Marquis de GrosseĬlermont, A Tale (1798) by Regina Maria Roche The Mysterious Warning, A German Tale (1796) by Eliza Parsons The Necromancer or, The Tale of the Black Forest (1794) by Ludwig Flammenberg We already have Radcliffe's Udolpho and The Italian in the catalogue, but more than one of the other titles can be found on Internet Archive.Ĭastle of Wolfenbach (1793) by Eliza Parsons Those will last us some time.”“Yes, pretty well but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid?”“Yes, quite sure for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them.” Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. “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 pocket-book. I really want to see this in the catalogu, because I think this is a good book. Hope someone would find this interesting. I am quite busy now, but I guess I will help if it would be started. Courtney, who conspire to part her from her paramour, Count de Bouville, brother of her friend Adelaide". She must also contend with the betrayal she suffers at the hands of Mademoiselle De Fontelle and a young widow, Mrs.
Exploring its eerie chambers she discovers a terrible secret regarding the disappearance of the Countess of the estate and must finally fight off the attentions of her incestuous uncle when he finally tracks her down. The novel details the adventures of Matilda Weimar, who escapes the clutches of her lecherous uncle to find sanctuary in the imposing German castle of the title.
First published in two volumes during 1793, it was one of the seven "horrid novels" recommended by the character Isabella Thorpe in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey.
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