 Radcliffe portrayed her female characters as equal to male characters, allowing them to dominate and overtake the typically powerful male villains and heroes, creating new roles for women in literature previously not available.It is assumed that this frustration is what caused Radcliffe to cease writing.After Radcliffe's death, her husband released her unfinished essay "On the Supernatural in Poetry", which details the difference between the sensation of "terror" her works aimed to achieve and the "horror" Lewis sought to evoke.