Matthew Gregory Lewis

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...

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

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 It was hastily withdrawn when the publisher, Stockdale , discerned...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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...