The Subterraneous Passage or Gothic Cell

The principal characters of The Subterraneous Passage, Edward Mortimer and Emily de Cleve, are loosely modeled on Valancourt and Emily in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic masterpiece Mysteries of Udolpho which had appeared some nine years earlier in 1794. The Subterraneous Passage tells of the trials of Emily and Edward before their love can be sealed by marriage, which include kidnapping, Emily's forced marriage to Marquis Dubois, discovery of an imprisoned female in a subterraneous cell and the discovery that her husband is a leader of banditti. The Subterraneous Passage is a sensational tale of deception, love, betray, rape and propriety.