biography
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Lewis, M(atthew) G(regory)
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nickname Monk Lewis
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| sex:
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| lived:
| (1775–1818)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford and Weimar universities, and in 1794 was an attaché to The Hague where he wrote The Monk (1796), a Gothic novel which caught the public's attention and inspired his nickname. After the success of his musical drama, The Castle Spectre (1798), his concern about the treatment of the slaves on the vast estates he inherited in the West Indies took him there twice, and he subsequently died of yellow fever. His memorable Journal of a West Indian Proprietor was published posthumously in 1834. |
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