CLARA REEVE
\klˈɑːɹə ɹˈiːv], \klˈɑːɹə ɹˈiːv], \k_l_ˈɑː_ɹ_ə ɹ_ˈiː_v]\
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An English novelist; born at Ipswich in 1729; died Dec. 3, 1807. Her most famous work is "The Champion of Virtue: A Gothic Story" (1777), afterwards published under the title of "The Old English Baron". She had previously written "The Phoenix" (1772), a translation from the Latin of Barclay's romance "Argenis". Among her other and less important works are: "The Two Mentors" (1783); "The Progress of Romance" (1785); and "The Exiles; or, Memoirs of Count de Cronstadt" (1788).
By Charles Dudley Warner
