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By his notorious Gothic romance The Monk, written when he was nineteen, Matthew Gregory Lewis — "Monk" Lewis — has won himself a place in nearly every history of English literature. Biographical notices of him usually record also that he was a friend of Walter Scott, published a collection of ballads called Tales of Wonder, wrote the absurd and highly successful melodrama The Castle Spectre, translated parts of Goethe's Faust to Lord Byron, told ghost stories to the Shelleys at Diodati [on Lake Geneva], visited the West Indies to improve the condition of his slaves, and died at sea on the way home. — Louis F. Peck (1961).

Educated at Westminster School and Christ Church College, Oxford, Matthew Gregory Lewis (9 July 1775 – 16 May 1818) received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1769 and his Master's in 1772, having started his university education on 27 April 1790 at the age of 15. Matthew Lewis, Senior, the novelist's wealthy and influential father, who served as Matthew lewis.