The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . 1882. Thus in his preface heacknowledges his model : The supernatural occurrence forming the ground-work of one of the ballads which I have made theharbinger of doom to the house of Rookwood, isascribed by popular superstition to a family residentin Sussex, upon whose estate the fatal tree (a giganticlime, with mighty arms and huge girth of trunk, asdescribed in the song) is still carefully Place, to which this singular piece of timberis attached, if, I may state for the benefit of the curious,the real Rookwood Hall ; f
The Brighton road : the classic highway to the south . 1882. Thus in his preface heacknowledges his model : The supernatural occurrence forming the ground-work of one of the ballads which I have made theharbinger of doom to the house of Rookwood, isascribed by popular superstition to a family residentin Sussex, upon whose estate the fatal tree (a giganticlime, with mighty arms and huge girth of trunk, asdescribed in the song) is still carefully Place, to which this singular piece of timberis attached, if, I may state for the benefit of the curious,the real Rookwood Hall ; for I have not drawn uponimagination, but upon memory in describing theseat and domains of that fated family. The general o 210 THE BRIGHTON ROAD features of the venerable structure, several of itschambers, the old garden, and, in particular, thenoble park, with its spreading prospects, its picturesqueviews of the hall, like bits of Mrs. Radcliffe (asthe poet Shelley once observed of the same scene),its deep glades, through which the deer come lightly. CUCKFIELD PLACE. tripping down, its uplands, slopes, brooks, brakes,coverts, and groves are carefully delineated. Like Mrs. Radcliffe ! That romance is indeedwritten in the peculiar convention which obtainedwith her, with Horace Walpole, with Maturin, and Monk Lewis ; a convention of Gothic gloom andsuperstition, delighting in gore and apparitions,responsible for the Mysteries of Udolpho,The Italian, The Monk, and other highlyseasoned reading of the early years of the nineteenthcentury. Ainsworth deliberately modelled his mannerupon Mrs. Radcliffe, changing the scenes of hisdesperate deeds from her favourite Italy to our ownland. His pages abound in apparitions, death-watches, highwaymen, pistols for two and breakfastsfor one, daggers, poison-bowls, and burials alive, and,
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