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(Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C.R. Maturin (25 September 1782 30 October 1824) was a writer of gothic plays and novels. He was born in Dublin and attended Trinity College, Dublin. Shortly after being ordained as curate of Loughrea, County Galway, in 1803, he became Anglican Curate of St. Peter's Church in Dublin and met and married singer Henrietta Kingsbury, a sister of Sarah Kingsbury whose daughter, Jane Francesca Wilde was the mother of Oscar Wilde. Thus Charles Maturin was Oscar Wilde's great-uncle by marriage. Wilde discarded his own name and adopted the name of Maturin's novel Melmoth the Wanderer when he arrived in Dieppe, France, and lived out his remaining days known as 'Sebastian Melmoth'.[2] Maturin s first three works were published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy. They caught the attention of Sir Walter Scott, who recommended Maturin's work to Lord Byron. With the help of these two Bertram (first staged on 9 May 1816 at the Drury Lane for 22 nights) with Edmund Kean starring in the lead role as Bertram.. Charles Robert Maturin died in Dublin on 30 October 1824. Honor de Balzac and Charles Baudelaire later expressed fondness for Maturin's work. The pl

Author

Dale Kramer

Publisher

Twayne Publishers, Inc

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805713824

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities