Hubert de Sevrac

Hubert de Sevrac

Title page of first edition
Author	Mary Robinson
Genre	Gothic
Publisher	T Hookham & Carpenter
Publication date	1796
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
OCLC	7021553

Hubert de Sevrac, a Romance of the Eighteenth Century (1796) is a Gothic novel by the celebrity actress and poet Mary Robinson. Its protagonists are a fictional French aristocrat Hubert de Sevrac and his daughter Sabina, who experience a series of dramatic travails after fleeing the French Revolution. Murders, kidnappings, and mistaken identities form the background of Hubert's gradual acceptance of revolutionary ideals. Robinson uses the novel to advocate for egalitarian social reform, including legal rights for women and a rejection of duelling. Hubert de Sevrac was influenced by the Gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, and William Godwin, but it was not as well received and marked the beginning of Robinson's decline in popularity as a novelist.