Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818--Criticism and interpretation; Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818. The monk
When Ambrosio in Matthew Lewis's 1796 gothic masterpiece, The Monk , signs a contract relegating his soul to Satan and eternal damnation, he has reached the culmination of 442 pages of mental anguish, of his self wrestling with his conscience to...
Bennett H. Young was born in Nicholasville, Kentucky, in 1843. He joined the Confederate army in 1861, served with John Hunt Morgan raiders. Captured in a 1863 raid in Ohio, he escaped to Canada where he organized a daring series of bank robberies...
Archibald Dixon was born in Caswell County, North Carolina, in 1802. He moved with his parents to Henderson, Kentucky, in 1805. Educated in the local schools, he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1824. He established a practice in Henderson....
Landaff W. Andrews was born in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. In 1826, he graduated from Transylvania University and was admitted to Fleming County bar, where he served as county attorney from 1829 to 1839. He served in the Kentucky House of...
Well-dressed men and women stand and sit around a dinner table in a residential dining room. A warming carafe and other items are on the table. The woman seated second from the left is believed to be author Alice Caldwell Hegan. And this may be the...
"Venus is represented rising out of the water in accord with the conventions of the Aphrodite Anadyomene type. The triton and dolphin, which recall the maritime setting, were sometimes depicted alternately with two cupids accompanying the...
