Everything you need to understand or teach
Matthew Gregory Lewis.
Products may contain comprehensive summaries, analysis, notes, articles, essays,
lesson plans and more. See below for details on what is included.
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 horro...
Read more
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, "T...
Read more
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 publis...
Read more
M. G. Lewis, one of the most popular novelists and playwrights of the Romantic period, was well placed to articulate the ambivalence many Britons felt about the changes facing their society and its pl...
Read more
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 ninete...
Read more
Matthew Gregory Lewis - (1775 - 1818)
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Matthew Gregory Lewis
