Matthew Gregory Lewis [Monk Lewis]

(1775-1818)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818 NRA: Lewis Matthew Gregory (1775-1818) Romance Writer DNB: Lewis, Matthew Gregory [called Monk Lewis] (1775-1818), novelist and playwright LBT ID: MaLewis1818 VIAF ID: 71394067 LOC ID: n80009876	B/BAP: 1775-07-09 DIED: 1818-05-16
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English poet and novelist; author of The Monk: a Romance (1796), Castle Spectre (1797), and Tales of Wonder (1800).
REFERENCES TO Matthew Gregory Lewis [Monk Lewis]: Walter Scott to Miss Christian Rutherford, [late October 1797] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 9 June 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 12 June 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to John Murray, 14 December 1808 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Walter Scott, 2 October 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 4 November 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Lord Byron to John Murray, 1 July 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 7 Lord Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 August 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 6 Lord Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 8 John Murray to Lord Byron, 7 July 1818 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n2 Lord Byron to William Bankes, 20 November 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Serafino Buonaiuti to William Jerdan, [1820?] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 4 Lord Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 January 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Verse 1: p. 435b Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron at home; recollections of Swiss society; on duelling Found 1: ¶ 18 Byron's family; his indiscretions Found 1: ¶ 4 On the drama; on superstition Found 1: ¶ 27 Elder dramatists; Goethe's Faust Found 1: ¶ 6 Matthew Gregory Lewis Found 6: ¶ 2 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 Sir Walter Scott Found 1: ¶ 14 [Thomas Colley Grattan?], “Lord Byron and his Memoirs” in The Attic Miscellany 1 (October 1824) 26-37 Found 1: ¶ 32 [Sir John Stoddart], “Conversations of Lord Byron” in New Times (27 October 1824) Found 1: ¶ 39 “Medwin’s Byron’s Conversations” in Literary Gazette (13 November 1824) 725-26 Found 1: ¶ 10 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter XXIX Found 1: ¶ 17 Chapter XXXII Found 1: ¶ 4 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Found 7: ¶ 4 ¶ 1 ¶ 8 ¶ 2 ¶ 4 ¶ 7 ¶ 1 Life of Byron: 1815 Life of Byron: 1816 (I) Found 1: ¶ 34 Life of Byron: 1816 (II) Found 1: ¶ 100 Life of Byron: 1817 Life of Byron: 1819 Life of Byron: 1820 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 2: ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Maginn, William, 1793-1842, “Galt’s Life of Byron” in Fraser’s Magazine 2 (October 1830) 347-70 Found 1: ¶ 75 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (1 January 1831) 3-5 Found 2: ¶ 16 ¶ 17 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 3: ¶ 61 ¶ 62 ¶ 69 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 53 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ 55 Chapter VIII 1796-97 Chapter IX 1798-99 Found 9: ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 16 ¶ 22 ¶ 24 ¶ 33 Chapter X 1800-02 Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 7 ¶ 21 Chapter XI 1802-03 Found 1: ¶ 8 Chapter X 1810-11 Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter IX 1814 Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter III 1825 Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter IV 1825 Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ 58 Chapter IX 1831 Found 1: ¶ 4 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Childhood Found 1: ¶ 22 Taste for the Gothic Found 1: ¶ 2 Frankenstein Found 3: ¶ 8 ¶ 10 ¶ 19 Epipsychidion Found 1: ¶ 1 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. XIII” in New Monthly Magazine 82 (March 1848) 329-41 Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 7 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IX. 1802-03 Ch. XV. 1809 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 5 Ch 5: Criticisms Debrett’s Peerage Found 1: ¶ 5 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter III. Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter XVII. Found 2: ¶ 19 ¶ 20 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. IV 1798 Found 1: ¶ 6 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1816-1818. Chapter VII. 1847-50. Found 1: ¶ 26 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter V. Chapter XIII. Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter XVI. Found 1: ¶ n2 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 1 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) Appendix Found 1: ¶ n2 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 7