Matthew Gregory Lewis

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Judith, the remaining MEMF novel of 1800, is attributed to the author of Rebecca, Miriam, and Fitzmorris &c. There was German translation in 1802. The incredibly complex plot follows...

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...

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...

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

The Critical felt that IK had disarmed reviewers by the humility of her preface.Devendra P. Varma , who wrote that this book was a thundering success in its day...

The Critical pronounced that—though the characters were trite and IK would do better to stop imitating Matthew Lewis —this novel was not the trash the reviewer had expected, but had a genuine secret to reveal...

AR 's rival M. G. Lewis finished reading Udolpho within ten days of its publication, though he had during the same time travelled from England to the Hague. In 1825 Ann Lister eagerly traced...