Reeve

Reeve, CLARA, novelist, daughter of the rector of Freston in Suffolk, was born at Ipswich in 1729, lived a quiet life, and died unmarried, 3d December 1807. She translated Barclay's Argenis (1772), and in 1777 published the Champion of Virtue, a Gothic Story, renamed next year The Old English Baron. It was dedicated to Richardson's daughter, and was avowedly an imitation of Walpole's Castle of Otranto, with its extravagances toned down. She published four other novels, and The Progress of Romance (1785).