Charles Robert Maturin (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Charles Robert Maturin (MAT-choo-ruhn) was the son of an official in the Irish post office and the grandson of Gabriel Maturin, who had been Jonathan Swift’s successor as dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin. Maturin was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and afterward became curate of Loughrea and then of St. Peter’s, Dublin. In 1803 he married Henrietta Kingsbury.
His early novels, Fatal Revenge, The Wild Irish Boy, and The Milesian Chief, were published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy. Extreme in their gothic style and dramatic character, the...
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