Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 36 (1802): 117
Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Standard Name: Lewis, Matthew Gregory
Used Form: M. G. Lewis
Used Form: Monk Lewis
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Isabella Kelly | The Critical felt that IK
had disarmed reviewers by the humility of her preface. |
| Literary responses | Isabella Kelly | The Critical pronounced that—though the characters were trite and IK
would do better to stop imitating Matthew Lewis
—this novel was not the trash the reviewer had expected, but had a genuine secret to reveal... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | George Saintsbury
in 1913 developed an attack on this book as very nearly consummate in badness. . . . a fair example of the worst imitations of Mrs. Radcliffe
and Matthew Lewis
conjointly, though without... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Dacre | Zofloya was widely reviewed and its language widely condemned as bombastical—probably reflecting unease at its rampant female sexuality. Shocked reviews included those in the Literary Journal and Monthly Literary Recreations, though the Morning... |
| Reception | Isabella Kelly | It seems that the implicit link between Kelly and Lewis
was noticed, for newspaper advertisements later this year announced that the two were collaborating on a novel—which made Lewis back off from their literary relationship... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson | T. and R. Hughes
published SSW
's anonymous 38-page chapbook The Castle Spectre; or, Family Horrors. A Gothic Story, derived from Matthew Lewis
's drama of the same title, 1796. University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/. |
| Textual Production | Harriet Lee | HL
aimed to be a moral writer. She later told Hester Piozzi she had not read Lewis
's The Monk, since I am no wilful reader of wicked books. Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 2: 410 n7 |
| Textual Production | Andrea Levy | Texts that she mentions using for research include Mary Prince
's autobiography, Lady Nugent
's journal, Matthew Lewis
's Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies, Mary Seacole
's Wonderful... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Green | M. G. Lewis
is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG
admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria Riddell | The diary records some of her literary tastes: she copied there a letter expressing her dislike of tragedies (which, no matter how moral, she felt to be harmful to the mind because of the violent... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Isabella Kelly | From the time of her first husband's death, IK
lived in poverty. Henrietta Fordyce
, whose life she wrote, died without finishing the will in which she intended to leave her a bequest. IK
was... |
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