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I EXPECT TO HEAR SHORTLY OF HIS BEING GONE TO GRETNA GREEN WITH SOME FEMALE BLACKAMOOR
LEWIS
(Matthew Gregory Monk, 1775-1818, Novelist and Dramatist
Autograph letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he intends to accept your invitation on Thursday: if it is inconvenient to receive me on that day, you must direct to me at Barnes, otherwise I shall not hear from you... I congratulate Brook on his safe arrival after all 'his moving accidents by flood and field'; I expect to hear shortly of his being gone to Gretna Green with some female Blackamoor 'who loved him for the dangers he had past'..., 1 side 8vo., Barnes, Monday no date, annotated in another hand as 6th November
Item Date: 1806
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Background
His writings are often classified as "Gothic horror". He was frequently referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his 1796 Gothic novel, The Monk. He also worked as a diplomat, politician, and an estate owner in Jamaica.
The passage he quotes “his moving accidents by flood and field”, is actually a reference to a line from Shakespeare’s play Othello, “Of moving accidents by flood and field” (Act 1, Scene 3, line 135), spoken by Othello when courting Desdemona. A recent life of M. G. Lewis, David Lorne Macdonald’s Monk Lewis: A Critical Biography (2000), also has references to Othello.
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