"Her first care was to guard the door of the stair-case, for which purpose she placed against it all the furniture she could move, and she was thus employed, for some time, at the end of which she had another instance how much more oppressive misfortune is to the idle, than to the busy; for, having then leisure to think over all the circumstances of her present afflictions, she imagined a thousand evils for futurity, and these real and ideal subjects of distress alike wounded her mind."
The Mysteries of Udolpho
9 entries in ESTC (1794, 1795, 1799, 1800).<br>
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<u>The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance; Interspersed with some Pieces of Poetry. By Ann Radcliffe, Author of the Romance of the Forest, etc.</u> 4 vols. (London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3310966036&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004837676.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP, Vol. I</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>The Mysteries of Udolpho</u>, ed. Jacqueline Howard (New York: Penguin Books, 2001).