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Maturin, Charles Robert 1782-1824
Irish dramatist and novelist
He was born in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College there, and became a curate in Loughrea and Dublin. He made his name with a series of extravagant novels in macabre vein that rivalled those of Ann Radcliffe. These include The Fatal Revenge (1807), Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), which influenced Honoré de Balzac, and The Albigenses (1824). His tragedy, Bertram, had a warm reception at Drury Lane, London, in 1816, but its successors, Manuel (1817) and Fredolpho (1819), were failures.
Bibliography: W Scholten, Charles Robert Maturin: the terror novelist (1933)
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