A Sicilian Romance

Ann Radcliffe

A Sicilian Romance — Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel begins with a traveler at the ruins of Mazzini castle, where a manuscript reveals the story of sisters Julia and Emilia in sixteenth-century Sicily. Their tyrannical father returns, secrets surround the abandoned south wing, and Julia’s love for Hippolitus conflicts with a forced marriage in a tale of family power, confinement, escape, and mystery that does not reveal the ending.