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description: Eleanor Sleath was a British author wellknown for her 1798 novel The Orphan of the Rhine. The novel subtitled A Romance was published in four volumes. It was listed as one of the seven horrid novels by Jane Austen in her novel Northanger Abbey. It was part of a brief but popular vogue of German tales a fashion criticised in the Critical Review in 1807. Although most gothic novels took a resolutely anti Roman Catholic stance the author of this novel was herself a Catholic. Her works include: Who's the Murderer?; or Mysterious Fortunes (1802) Nocturnal Minstrel; or The Spirit of the Wood (2 volumes) (1810) and Glenowen; or The Fairy Palace (1815).
language: English
title: The Orphan of the Rhine
publisher: Dodo Press