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Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1780 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels. His best known work is the novel Melmoth the Wanderer, published in 1820.
Charles Robert Maturin (Dublin, 25 de setembro de 1782 – idem, 30 de outubro de 1824) foi um clérigo protestante, dramaturgo e romancista irlandês. Sua obra mais famosa é o romance gótico Melmoth the Wanderer, originalmente publicado em 1820. [1]
Charles Robert Maturin (born Sept. 25, 1782, Dublin, Ire.—died Oct. 30, 1824, Dublin) was an Irish clergyman, dramatist, and author of Gothic romances. He has been called “the last of the Goths,” as his best known work, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), is considered the last of the classic English Gothic romances.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Melmoth the Wanderer is an 1820 Gothic novel by Irish playwright, novelist and clergyman Charles Maturin. The novel's titular character is a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life, and searches the world for someone who will take over the pact for him, in a manner reminiscent of the Wandering Jew .
- Charles Robert Maturin
- 1820
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION. Maturin was born in Dublin, where he spent most of his life. He graduated from Trinity College in 1800 and in 1803 was ordained a minister of the Church of England.
Maturin, Charles Robert (1780–1824), Church of Ireland clergyman and novelist, was born 25 September 1780 in Dublin, sixth and youngest child of William Maturin, post office official and clerk of the roads for Munster, and his wife, Fidelia (née Watson).
large paragraph in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary describes him as 'Irish Playwright and. Author of Novels of Terror'. They think so much of him they have him living even two years longer than he did. He died 1824. They say 1826. Maturin was a friend of Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott.
