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One more of the so-called “horrid novels” referenced in Northanger Abbey is The Orphan of the Rhine (1798) by Eleanor Sleath.

Read it here.

Quote: “Here Silence has fixed her abode, disturbed only at intervals by the howling of the wolf, or the cry of the vulture. In such a situation actions have no witnesses; these woods are no spies.”

Valancourt Books edition of The Orphan of the Rhine, with artwork depicting a young woman reading by lamplight.

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