The English novelist and playwright Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), known as Monk Lewis, a popular writer during the early 19th century, is remembered today only as the author of a Gothic novel, "The Monk." Matthew G. Lewis was born in London on...

When Matthew Gregory Lewis, then nineteen, wrote proudly to his mother from The Hague that he had just finished a romance called "The Monk" and that if the booksellers would not buy it he would publish it himself, he could have had little idea of the...

Matthew Gregory Lewis began writing in an effort to earn money for his mother and stopped his literary efforts because of the burden of managing the wealth inherited from his father. While just nineteen he wrote The Monk (1796), his first publication...

Matthew Gregory Lewis - (1775 - 1818) English novelist, playwright, diarist, prose writer, and poet. Lewis is best known as the author of The Monk (1796), a notorious eighteenth-century novel of horror that is considered one of the greatest examples of...

The last time two D.C. firefighters were killed in the same incident was 1911. So when Lewis Matthews and Tony Phillips died in a fire Saturday, it was particularly devastating - even in a city that can claim the busiest firehouse in the...

A number of critics, most notably the Marquis de Sade, have argued that Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1796) was heavily influenced by the turmoil of the French Revolution. As Ronald Paulson points out, Lewis's novel reflects a highly ambivalent attitude toward the political upheaval...