Charles Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C.R. Maturin (born September 25, 1782 in Dublin; died October 30, 1824 in Dublin) was an Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained by the Church of Ireland) and a writer of gothic plays and novels. Descended from a Huguenot family, he was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 25 September 1782, and later attended Trinity College, Dublin. His first three works were published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy and were critical and commercial failures. They did, however, catch the attention of Sir Walter Scott, who recommended Maturin's work to Lord Byron. He died in Dublin on 30 October 1824. Honoré de Balzac and Charles Baudelaire later expressed fondness for Maturin's work, particularly his most famous novel, Melmoth the Wanderer.

Known Works

Novels

• The Fatal Revenge; or, the Family of Montorio (1807)
• The Wild Irish Boy (1808)
• The Milesian Chief (1812)
• Women; or, Pour Et Contre; a Tale (1818)
• Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
• The Albigenses (1824)
• Leixlip Castle (1825)

Plays

• Bertram (1816)
• Manuel (1817)
• Fredolfo (1819)

Poems

• The Universe (1821)