Author:Matthew Gregory Lewis

Matthew Gregory Lewis
(1775–1818)

Matthew Gregory Lewis

Works

• Ambrosio, or the Monk (1795)
• The Monk: a Romance (1796), in 3 vols. (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
• Village Virtues (1796)
• The Minister (1797), from Schiller's "Kabale und Liebe"
• The Castle Spectre (1798)
• Rolla, a tragedy (1799), from Kotzebue
• Tales of Terror (1799)
• The Love of Gain (1799)
• The East Indian (1799)
• Adelmorn, or the Outlaw (1800)
• Alphonso, King of Castile (1801)
• Tales of Wonder (1801), in 2 vols.
• The Bravo of Venice (1804), from the German
• Adelgitha (1807)
• Feudal Tyrants (1807)
• Romantic Tales (1808), many from the French and German.
• Venoni, or the Novice of St. Mark's (1808), from ‘Les Victimes Cloîtrées’
• One O'clock; or, The Knight and the Wood-Demon (1811)
• Timour the Tartar (1812)
• Poems (1812)
• Journal of a West Indian Proprietor (1834)

Works about Lewis

• "Lewis, Matthew Gregory," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Lewis, Matthew Gregory," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Lewis, Matthew Gregory," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Lewis, Matthew Gregory," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Quoted by others

• Ghost stories in Journal at Geneva (including Ghost Stories) and on Return to England, 1816, in The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1880), edited by Harry Buxton Forman