![]() I gaped and yawned over them at the time, but, unawares to myself, they fixed my principles once and for all. My father was an old Whig from him I have learned all that I know he was my oracle he used to make me read the Parliamentary debates, while he smoked his pipe after supper. Reeve described her father and her early life in a letter to a friend: Her mother was the daughter of William Smithies, a goldsmith and jeweller to King George I. Her first work was a translation from Latin, then an unusual language for a woman to learn.Ĭlara Reeve was born in Ipswich, one of the eight children of Reverend William Reeve MA, Rector of Freston and of Kirton, Suffolk, and perpetual curate of St Nicholas, Ipswich. She also wrote an innovative history of prose fiction, The Progress of Romance (1785). Clara Reeve (23 January 1729 – 3 December 1807) was an English novelist best known for the Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1777). ![]()
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