Matthew Gregory Lewis

The Critical Review rose to the challenge of this work, arguing that this story showed that Wollstonecraft's real talents lay in the novel: not for the usual, superficial variety, but for a tale of interest...

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.

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...

The long title of Crazy Jane promises an account of their birth, parentage, courtship, and melancholy end. Founded on facts. The story is an ostensibly moral tale of seduction, madness, and suicide, derived from...

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...

Sidney Bidulph was also influential. It helped shape the depiction of unhappy marriage in Lennox 's Euphemia. Though FS 's son Richard Brinsley claimed not to have read it, he borrowed from it...

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 It was hastily withdrawn when the publisher, Stockdale , discerned...

MS was the only one of the group to rise to Byron 's challenge by completing a ghost story, which she did almost a year later, on 14 May 1817. She dedicated the printed...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. In 1825 Ann Lister eagerly traced...

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