 In the eighteenth century, she inspired writers like Matthew Lewis (1775 – 1818) and the Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), who praised her work but produced more intensely violent fiction.Radcliffe was famous for having spawned a large number of lesser imitators of the "Radcliffe School", such as Harriet Lee and Catherine Cuthbertson.Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) defined her fiction as a contrast to Radcliffe and writers like her, especially in "Northanger Abbey" (1817), Austen's parody of "The Mysteries of Udolpho".