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MATURIN, CHARLES ROBERT (1782-1824)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 903 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MATURIN, See also:CHARLES See also:ROBERT (1782-1824) , Irish novelist and dramatist, was See also:born in See also:Dublin in 1782. His grandfather, See also:Gabriel See also:Jasper Maturin, had been See also:Swift's successor in the deanery of St See also:Patrick. Charles Maturin was educated at Trinity See also:College, Dublin, and became See also:curate of See also:Loughrea and then of St See also:Peter's, Dublin. His first novels, The Fatal Revenge; or, the See also:Family of Monlorio (1807), The See also:Wild Irish Boy (18o8), The Milesian See also:Chief (1812), were issued under the See also:pseudonym of " See also:Dennis Jasper See also:Murphy." All these were mercilessly ridiculed, but the irregular See also:power displayed in them attracted the See also:notice of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott, who recommended the author to See also:Byron. Through their See also:influence Maturin's tragedy of See also:Bertram was produced at See also:Drury See also:Lane in 1816, with See also:Kean and See also:Miss See also:Kelly in the leading parts. A See also:French version by Charles See also:Nodier and See also:Baron See also:Taylor was produced in See also:Paris at the See also:Theatre See also:Favart. Two more tragedies, See also:Manuel (1817) and Fredolfo (2819), were failures, and his poem The Universe (1821) See also:fell See also:flat. He wrote three more novels, See also:Women (1818), Melmoth, the Wanderer (182o), and The Albigenses (1824). Melmoth, which forms its author's See also:title to remembrance, is the best of them, and has for See also:hero a See also:kind of " Wandering See also:Jew." Honore de See also:Balzac wrote a sequel to it under the title of Melmoth reconcilie a l'eglise (1835). Maturin died in Dublin on the 3oth of See also:October 1824.

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