![]() His next novel, The Midnight Bell (1798), is his most famous, not only because it is his best Gothic novel, but more significantly because Jane Austen lists it as one of "the horrid novels" in her Northanger Abbey. Lewis, he typically followed Radcliffe's method of the "explained supernatural." Although Lathom would occasionally employ bloody and horrific scenes reminiscent of M. ![]() This work, like most of Lathom's later Gothic novels, owed much to the earlier works of such writers as Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe. Lathom's first novel, The Castle of Ollada (1795) was published in two volumes, anonymously, by William Lane's Minerva Press. ![]() His first play, All in a Bustle, was produced on the Norwich stage at the Theatre Royal Norwich in 1795 he would go on to write six other plays, including The Dash of the Day (1800), which went into three Norwich editions as well as a reprint published in Dublin. Lathom was a precocious writer, beginning to write plays before he had turned eighteen. He joined the Norwich Stock Company, a stock theatre company, in 1791 and began his literary career there. ![]() Francis Lathom was born on 14 July 1774, either in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where his father, Henry, conducted business for the East India Company and returning to England around 1777, settling near Norwich, or he was born in Norwich and may have been the illegitimate son of an English peer. ![]()
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