Matthew Gregory Lewis

CD , publishing as Rosa Matilda, dedicated her first novel, Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer, to Monk Lewis .

EP moved publishers again, to P. Norbury of Brentford, for The Valley of St. Gothard, A Novel, dedicated to M. G. Lewis .

During the time she spent at her great-aunt's house in Croydon, LV 's novel suggests she was taught at home by a family governess, a close friend of her mother, identified there as Miss...

Her son William Martin Kelly turned out a disappointment. A recent biographer of Matthew Lewis discounts stories that William's relationship with his patron was sexual. William, however, appears to have suffered, in typical young-gentleman fashion...

MR 's daughter grew up to be a writer, and to publish two books under her own name as well as revising and editing work by MR . Hers are the gothic, epistolary Minerva novel...

Assessments of LCB 's work during her lifetime varied wildly. Sir Walter Scott quoted her in print; Sydney Morgan respected her work; but to most people her social identity eclipsed her literary one. Her early...

Another acquaintance of LCB 's from childhood was Matthew Gregory Lewis , who was a favourite at Inverary Castle during her girlhood, and dedicated his Romantic Tales to her in 1808.

During her first marriage Lady Charlotte frequently entertained the literary celebrities of her day. She was a friend and patron of Sir Walter Scott , and a friend (with her daughters) of the exiled Italian...

Her friends or perhaps patrons included General Henry Seymour Conway (father of the writer-sculptor Anne Damer ) and his whole family.Matthew Lewis (though given his general view of fiction by women he may...

She had already by this date, on a visit to London, met Boswell , the biographer, and found him a stranger biped than any she knew. By this time, too, her political contacts included...

This novel claims relationship with Macpherson 's Ossian through quotations appearing on its title-page and heading its chapters. An element of terror derives from Matthew Gregory Lewis 's notorious The Monk, 1796. It opens...

There follows a fighting critical Dissertation Respecting Patrons and Dedications, which covers the issues of male disrespect for female authors, the tyranny of critics, and over-insistence on moral instruction (with Hannah More 's Coelebs...

The second edition was published with Minerva . In her self-depreciating preface to this four-volume novel, IK coyly mentions an unnamed patron. This was in fact Matthew Gregory Lewis , who read her work and...

PBS published his first book of lyric, gothic, and narrative verse, Original Poetry (written jointly with his sister Elizabeth ) in 1810 at Worthing. It was hastily withdrawn when the publisher, Stockdale , discerned...

This novel opens in Barbados, though IK offers far less description of the setting than in her novels with British backgrounds. Though the widowed mother of the heroine, Antonia Courtney, is determined that she...