Adeline

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Adeline is the virtuous and persecuted heroine of Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Romance of the Forest."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gothic heroine
fictional character
literary character
appearsIn The Romance of the Forest
appearsInGenre Gothic fiction
associatedWithAuthor Ann Radcliffe
surface form: Ann Radcliffe, a leading Gothic novelist
associatedWithCriticalReception often cited as a key example of Radcliffe’s virtuous heroine type
associatedWithMotif imprisonment and confinement
secret manuscripts
threatened virtue
associatedWithSetting French countryside
ruined abbey
associatedWithTheme Gothic mystery
persecution of innocence
sensibility
virtue under trial
centralConflict attempts to preserve virtue amid danger
struggle against the schemes of the Marquis de Montalt
characterArc from endangered orphan to socially recognized and protected woman
characterType orphaned heroine
countryOfOriginOfWork United Kingdom
createdBy Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe
surface form: English novelist Ann Radcliffe
describedAs persecuted
virtuous
familyName de Montalt (in some editions and analyses)
firstPublishedInWorkByPublisher The Romance of the Forest
surface form: The Romance of the Forest, published by T. Hookham (London)
gender female
hasLoveInterest Theodore
influenced later Gothic heroines in English literature
influencedByTradition early Gothic romance
sentimental novel
languageOfWork English
literaryPeriod late 18th century
literarySignificance one of the early models of the persecuted Gothic heroine
moralAlignment good
name Adeline
narrativeFunction embodiment of sensibility and virtue
victim of persecution
opposedBy the Marquis de Montalt
surface form: Marquis de Montalt
publicationYearOfFirstAppearance 1791
roleInWork protagonist
setInHistoricalPeriod 18th-century France

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