 Honoré de Balzac's novel of the supernatural "L'Héritière de Birague" (1822) follows the tradition of Radcliffe's style and parodies it.As a child the young Fyodor Dostoyevsky was deeply impressed by Radcliffe.In "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions" (1863) he writes, "I used to spend the long winter hours before bed listening (for I could not yet read), agape with ecstasy and terror, as my parents read aloud to me from the novels of Ann Radcliffe.