Its full title is Gaston de Blondeville: Or, The Court of Henry III.

Set in the 13th-century court of England's King Henry III, the novel centres around the wedding of the title character.

The first volume begins with A memoir of the Author, with Extracts from her Journal, which is the first known biography of Mrs. Radcliffe.

Rictor Norton notes that this work "was written three years after her death by a man who never met her, using material supplied solely by her husband and his own intuition".

[2] The book is described as "drawn out and sometimes rambling, the plot lacking in impetus",[3] but is notable as being the last novel to be both written (circa 1802) and published (in 1826, posthumously) by Radcliffe.