Matthew Gregory Lewis

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Standard Name: Lewis, Matthew Gregory
Used Form: M. G. Lewis
Used Form: Monk Lewis

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
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...
Fictionalization Lady Charlotte Bury
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...
Friends, Associates Lady Charlotte Bury
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.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
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Friends, Associates Lady Charlotte Bury
During her first marriage Lady Charlotte frequently entertained the literary celebrities of her day.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
She was a friend and patron of Sir Walter Scott , and a friend (with her daughters) of the exiled Italian...
Leisure and Society Lady Charlotte Bury
Enjoyments of her life during these years included amateur theatricals. Lewis 's epilogue for her to speak at the close of one production makes her the moving spirit of the whole. I made up the...
Dedications Charlotte Dacre
CD , publishing as Rosa Matilda, dedicated her first novel, Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer, to Monk Lewis .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 210
Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, pp. 11-36.
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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...
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Eden
She pays no attention in these letters to historical, geographical, or linguistic facts. On one occasion she mentions her interest in Indian politics, but does not write on it because she could not make them...
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs E. M. Foster
Judith, the remaining MEMF novel of 1800, is attributed to the author of Rebecca, Miriam, and Fitzmorris &c. There was German translation in 1802.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 115
The incredibly complex plot follows...
Literary responses Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Hester Lynch Piozzi evidently felt later that these stories were very strong meat for children. She commented in a letter, I think a great Change has been made in Taste of popular Literature—or rather popular...
Literary responses Anna Gordon
William Tytler was followed by many more in his interest in AG 's ballads. His son Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee) , Scott , Jamieson , Joseph Ritson , M. G. Monk Lewis , Robert Anderson
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...
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...
Friends, Associates Isabella Kelly
Her friends or perhaps patrons included General Henry Seymour Conway (father of the writer-sculptor Anne Damer ) and his whole family.
Kelly, Isabella. A Collection of Poems and Fables. Richardson.
39-40
Matthew Lewis (though given his general view of fiction by women he may...
Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Kelly
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...

Timeline

9 July 1775: Matthew Gregory Lewis, later famous as the...

Writing climate item

9 July 1775

Matthew Gregory Lewis , later famous as the leading Gothic novelist of horror, was born on the eleventh birthday of Ann Radcliffe , leading Gothic novelist of terror.

12 March 1796: Matthew Gregory Lewis anonymously published...

Writing climate item

12 March 1796

Matthew Gregory Lewis anonymously published The Monk, his gothicnovel of horror.

Texts

Lewis, Matthew Gregory. “Matthew Gregory Lewis: A Brief Chronology”. The Monk, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 2004, pp. 27-9.
Wilkinson, Sarah Scudgell, and Matthew Gregory Lewis. The Castle Spectre. T. and R. Hughes, 1807.