Matthew Gregory Lewis

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

The Critical Review introduced its laudatory notice by praising the current standard of women's poetry (a tradition, it says, less than a century old). It invokes the canonical names of Seward , Barbauld , and...

Hester Lynch Piozzi evidently felt later that these stories were very strong meat for children. She commented in a letter, I think a great Change has been made in Taste of popular Literature—or rather popular...

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...

William Tytler was followed by many more in his interest in AG 's ballads. His son Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee) , Scott , Jamieson , Joseph Ritson , M. G. Monk Lewis , Robert Anderson

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