title: A Sicilian Romance (Oxford World's Classics)
author: Ann Radcliffe
description: 'Her own survey of the criticism is lucid and wide-ranging.' Times Literary Supplement
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  The Third MacPherson
  
  Sister
  
  Susana Ellis
  
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  Acknowledgements
  
  Ellen Shrager
  
  Selene Grace Silver
  
  Cora Lee
  
  Aileen Fish
  
  Thank you for all the encouragement and support.
  
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  Prologue
  
  
  7 May 1817
  
  
  Almack’s Assembly Rooms
  
  
  King Street
  
  
  London
  
  Rebecca MacPherson took a step back to avoid the couple waltzing perilously
  close to her refuge near the potted palm outside the refreshment room. If her
  mother hadn’t insisted on attending the assembly rooms tonight, she could be
  at home re-reading her favorite of Mrs. Radcliffe’s novels, A Sicilian
  
  
  Romance.  Instead, she had been dul