Inspiration for many!

Like I mentioned in my previous post Ann Radcliffe served as inspiration to many writers, poets, and novelist. Most famously she served as a great inspiration to the iconic and undeniably great Jane Austen.
A brief history of Jane, she was born in 1775, making her Ann 10 years her elder. In Jane’s life she published many items, but her six novels are the most acknowledged: Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Like Ann’s Gaston de Blondeville, Jane’s Northanger Abbey was published posthumously. But where the difference lies is is when the books were written. Although Northanger Abbey was published last, it is actually Jane’s first attempt to novel writing. Because it was her first novel Jane pulls from inspiration of Ann. In Northanger Abbey makes strong references to Ann’s The Mysteries of Udolpho and mimics her writing style. This would explain the disconnection between Northanger Abbey and the remaining five novels.
Pamela Mooman suggests that Emma and Sense and Sensibility were also influenced by The Mysteries of Udolpho in her “How Ann Radcliffe Influenced Jane Austen: Ann Radcliffe’s Ideas on Sensibility Affected Jane Austen's Writings”. She draws a parallel between St. Aubert and Emily, and the sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. With each family one is rational and the other is not. Mooman writes, “Ann Radcliffe’s ideas on sentiment and richly expressed “fine feelings” definitely influenced Jane Austen, both in her disposition and her writing. True, Jane Austen was probably of a temperate disposition already, but Ann Radcliffe’s ideas built upon her own, and made them even more valid in Jane Austen’s mind.”
Jane was not the only writer that inspired by Ann. People such as Edgar Allen Poe, John Keats, and many others were inspired by her and referenced her work in their work as well.