Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
Matthew Gregory Lewis
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Standard Name: Lewis, Matthew Gregory
Used Form: M. G. Lewis
Used Form: Monk Lewis
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Literary responses | Isabella Kelly | This novel was praised by the British Critic as entitled to no mean place among the better productions of this description. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Kelly | |
Literary responses | Isabella Kelly | The Critical felt that IK
had disarmed reviewers by the humility of her preface. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 36 (1802): 117 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Kelly | 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... |
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... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sophia King | The dutiful daughters thank their father for his care of their education. Pieces by the two sisters mostly alternate. SK
claims in a note that she composed her De Clifford's Ghost at the age of... |
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... |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | This novel was an instantaneous success. Of the second edition the Critical Review (of May 1802) wrote: Seldom have we met with any combination of incidents, real or imaginary, which possessed more of the deeply... |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | |
Dedications | Eliza Parsons | EP
moved publishers again, to P. Norbury
of Brentford, for The Valley of St. Gothard, A Novel, dedicated to M. G. Lewis
. The English Novel mistakenly dates the Critical notice of this... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian has been read as an answer to The Monk by Lewis
, a vindication of terror (assaults on the nerves, the strain of threatened but imperfectly perceived danger) against horror (sexual obsession and... |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | AR
's rival M. G. Lewis
finished reading Udolpho within ten days of its publication, though he had during the same time travelled from England to the Hague. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 93 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | 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. MacNaughton, Angus. Burns’ Mrs Riddell. A Biography. Volturna Press. 63 |
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