Matthew Gregory Lewis

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Judith, the remaining MEMF novel of 1800, is attributed to the author of Rebecca, Miriam, and Fitzmorris &c. There was German translation in 1802. The incredibly complex plot follows...

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...

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...

This novel was praised by the British Critic as entitled to no mean place among the better productions of this description. The interesting characters, gripping incident, and unaffected language were singled out for praise.Frederick S. Frank

The Critical felt that IK had disarmed reviewers by the humility of her preface.Devendra P. Varma , who wrote that this book was a thundering success in its day...

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...

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...

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...

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...