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...

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 place in the world. In works such as The Monk (1796)...

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...