Obituary

On this day 207 years ago the English author and playwright Matthew Lewis died.  He wrote the notorious and first English language horror novel The Monk at age 19, of which we have lately written.  

Upon his death more than 20 years after the publication of The Monk, he was still being heaped with abuse, as we see in an obituary which appeared in The Tickler:

To my mind, this is an admirable legacy.  He got under the skin of the arbiters of taste, and stayed there, for eternity.  What better laurel for an author?