Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) was a British author.
He wrote also what he called "a romance in the style of The Castle of Otranto, " which appeared afterwards as the play of The Castle Spectre (179.
Already he was busy over tales and plays, and wrote at college a farce, never acted, a comedy, The East Indian, and also a novel, never published, called The Effusions of Sensibility, which was a burlesque upon the sentimental school.
From Westminster School, he passed to Christ Church, Oxford.
Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) was a British author