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REEVE, CLARA (1729–1807)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 975 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REEVE, See also:CLARA (1729–1807) , See also:English novelist, daughter of See also:William Reeve, a See also:Suffolk clergyman, was See also:born at See also:Ipswich in 1729. She was an industrious writer, and produced many See also:works in See also:prose and See also:verse, including a See also:history of the Progress of See also:Romance (1785); but her only eminent success was the novel of The Old English See also:Baron (1777), originally published under the See also:title of The See also:Champion of Virtue. In the history of the English novel she stands midway between See also:Walpole and Mrs. See also:Radcliffe. She died at Ipswich on the 3rd of See also:December 1807.

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