Matthew Gregory Lewis

09 July 1775 - 14 May 1818

Standard Name: Lewis, Matthew Gregory

Used Form: M. G. Lewis

Used Form: Monk Lewis

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 210 Dacre, Charlotte. “Introduction”. Zofloya; or, The Moor, edited by Adriana Craciun, Broadview, 1997, pp. 11-36. 35
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...
Education	Linda Villari	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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Robinson	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...
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	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, 1794. 39-40 Matthew Lewis (though given his general view of fiction by women he may...
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, 1992. 57
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, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. She was a friend and patron of Sir Walter Scott , and a friend (with her daughters) of the exiled Italian...
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, 1975. 63 By this time, too, her political contacts included...
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...
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...
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, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 115 The incredibly complex plot follows...
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Wollstonecraft	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...

Timeline

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.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

12 March 1796

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

Lewis, Matthew Gregory. “Matthew Gregory Lewis: A Brief Chronology”. The Monk, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, 2004, pp. 27-9.

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