1782-1824 [commonly given as 1820-24; early pseud. “Dennis Jasper
Murphy”]; b. 25 Sept. in Dublin, of Huguenot stock, to Huguenot
family; f. worked in Post Office; ed. TCD, 1795, BA 1800; ord. 1803, and
appt. curate at Loughrea, Co. Galway, being influenced by the scenery;
m. Henrietta Kingsbury, 1804; curate of St. Peter’s Parish, Aungier
St., Dublin, 1805 until his death; on his father’s business failing,
he established a tutoring college in Dublin and from it derived an income
of £500-1,000, but was compelled to give it up in 1807; financed publication
of The Fatal Revenge, or the Family of Montorio (1807), reviewed
by Walter Walter Scott in Quarterly Review (‘at some future
time [the author will] astonish the public’); Maturin’s response
began a correspondence that continued during his lifetime; issued The
Wild Irish Boy (1808), a novel in the manner of Lady Morgan; The
Milesian Chief (1812), imitated by Scott in The Bride of Lammermoor;
issued The Fatal Revenge Women, or Pour et Contre (1818),
a romantic story of a young man who chooses between a daughter and her
mother, reviewed by Scott in the Edinburgh Review, (‘has used
the scalpel [...] with professional rigour and dexterity’); Bertram,
a five-act tragedy, recommended by Scott to Kemble, who declined it; produced
on advice of Byron, with Edmund Kean in the title role (though with the
part of the Dark Knight of the Forest removed as being too evil for the
stage); became season’s success at Drury Lane on withdrawal of King
Lear due to George III’s madness, 1816; devastating attack on
Maturin by Coleridge appeared in The Courier [rep. in Appendix
to Biographia Literaria, 1817], his own Zapolya having been
rejected; his later plays Manuel (1817), Fredolfo, and Osmyn
the Renegade (1819), all unsuccessful; Melmoth the Wanderer
(1820), his fiction masterpiece said to have been written by candlelight
in Marsh’s library and set in Melmoth Lodge and Devil’s Glen,
Co. Wicklow, concerning the Faustian pact of John Melmoth; a late monument
to the Gothicism of ‘Monk’ Lewis and Mrs. Radcliffe, it provided
Oscar Wilde (related to Maturin on his mother’s side) with a pseudonym
after his release from Reading Gaol, the name itself being derived from
Thomas Amory character in the Life of John Buncle (1756-66); The
Albigenses (1824), planned as the first of a trilogy of historical
romances; his books rapidly fell into such disregard that the Irish
Quarterly Review could write of him in 1852 that ‘there is not
one whose memory is so much neglected or whose works are so much forgotten’;
in the same decade Thackeray consigned him to the past; James Clarence
Mangan wrote that he had ‘understood many people [though] no one
understood him in any way’ (sketch for The Irishman,
1849); Baudelaire and Hugo declaring their admiration for his work; all
his novels translated into French by 1825; Balzac produced a sequel, Melmoth
Réconcilié (1835); Goethe also attempted a translation;
d. 30 Oct. 1824, after accidental poisoning, York St., Dublin; acc. William
Carleton, Maturin wrote ‘the greater portion of several of his novels
at a small plain deal desk’ in Marsh’s Library; Oscar Wilde
took Sebastian Melmoth as pen-name after his downfall; his works were
translated into French c.1820, and Melmoth was continued in a sequel
by Balzac as Melmoth Réconcilié (1835); and obituary
notices appeared in The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Quarterly
(Dec. 1824), and the Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 95
(April 1825), pp.84-85; Mangan wrote a piece on Maturin as the first
[No. 1] in his ‘Sketches and Reminiscences of Irish Writers’
(The Irishman, 24 March 1849, p.187); in 1873, TCD Library held
only one title by him in a late edition. CAB DNB IF DIW DIB DIH DIL/2
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Plays, Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand (London: John Murray 1816), 1+94pp. [2 edns.; ded. to Walter Scott, The Scottsman, the only Friend of the Irish Author’]; Manuel, A Tragedy in Five Acts, as performed at The Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane by the author of Bertram (London: John Murray 1817) [second edition]; Fredolfo, A Tragedy, in five acts by the Rev. C. R. Maturin, author of Bertram, &c. (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co.; London: Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown [Paternoster-Row]; Hurst Robinson & Co. [Cheapside] 1819); The Sybil’s Prophecy, dramatic fragment in The Literary Souvenir, or Cabinet of Poetry and Romance (1926), Vol. 2, pp.128-36; Osmyn the Renegade, or The Seige of Salerno [unpublished, MS lost; extracts in Irish Quarterly Review, II, March 1852, pp.166-69].
Novels, The Fatal Revenge, or The Family of Montorio, A Romance by Dennis Jasper Murphy, 3 vols. (London: Longmans, Hurst, Rees & Orme 1807), rep. with foreword by Henry D. Hicks, intro. M. Levy, 3 vols. (NY: Arno Press 1974); The Wild Irish Boy, by the Author of Montorio, 3 vols. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808), and Do. [facs. rep.] (NY: Garland Publishing Inc. 1979); The Milesian Chief, 4 vols. (London: Henry Colburn 1812), Do. [facs. rep.] (NY: Garland Publishing 1979); Women, or Pour et Contre, Women; or, Pour et Contre, A Tale, by the author of Bertram, &c., 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable; London: Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown 1818), and Do. [facs. rep.] (NY: Garland Publishing 1979); Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale [by the author of … &c.], 3 vols. (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable; London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. 1820), Do., 3 vols. (London: Bentley & Son 1892) [‘with a memoir and bibliography of Maturin’s works’]; Do., intro. by W. F. Axton (Nebraska UP 1961)and Do., ed. & intro. by Douglas Grant (OUP 1968); The Albigenses, A Romance, 4 vols. (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable; London: Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1824 [FDA]), rep. with foreword by J. Gray and intro. by Dale Kramer, 4 vols. (NY: Arno Press 1974); ‘Leixlip Castle: An Irish Family Legend’, in The Literary Souvenir; or, Cabinet of Poetry and Romance (London: Hurst & Robinson 1825), rep., in The Grimoire and Other Supernatural Stories, collected by Montague Summers (Fortune Press 1936), pp.23-27.
Miscellaneous, Lines on the Battle of Waterloo, by John Shee, Esq [pseud.], Undergrad. TCD (Dublin: R Milliken, Grafton St.), poem, 56pp.; ‘Oh How Sweet the Feeling’, ‘Stranger to the Tree’, ‘Stranger to the Stream’, poems, in A Select Collection of Melodies, ed., Alexander Campbell (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1816), Vol. 2; Sermons (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, London: Hurst & Robinson 1819 [2nd edn. 1821; 1824]), xx+475pp.; Five Sermons On The Errors Of The Roman Catholic Church, preached at St. Peter’s Church (Dublin [Grafton Street]: Richard Milliken 1824), 163pp. [var. Dublin: W. Fold & Son 1824], 2nd. edn. (1826); F. Ratchford and W. H. McCarthy, eds., The Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Robert Maturin (Texas UP 1937), x, 128pp.
New Editions, W. F. Axton, intro., Melmoth the Wanderer (Nebraska UP 1961)and Do., ed. & intro. by Douglas Grant (OUP 1968); E. F. Bleider, intro., The Wild Irish Boy, 3 vols. (NY: Arno Press 1977), and Robert Lee Wolff, ed., Do. [facs. rep.] (NY: Garland Publ. 1979); Robert Lee Wolff, ed., The Milesian Chief (NY: Garland Publ. 1979); Douglas Grant, ed., Melmoth the Wanderer, with new introduction by Chris Baldick (Oxford & London: OUP 1989).
Correspondence, Fannie E[lizabeth] Ratchford and William H[enry]. McCarthy, eds., The Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Robert Maturin, with a Few Other Allied Letters (Austin, 1939).
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Early Accounts
The Dublin and London Magazine Vol. l (April 1826), p.96.
Obituary of Rev. C. R. Maturin, The Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. 95 (1825), pp.8685[?].
‘Conversations of Maturin’, The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Vol. XIX, No. l (1827), pp.401-11.
‘Conversations of Maturin’, Do., Vol. XIX, No. 2 (1827), pp.570-77.
Recollections of Maturin, Vol. XX, No. 3 ([1828]) pp.146-152.
‘Recollections of Maturin’, Do., Vol. XX, No. 4 ([1828]), pp.370-76.
Memoranda of Maturin in Douglas Jerrold’s Shilling Magazine, Vol.3 (1846), pp.125-34.
‘Extract from the portfolio of a man of the world’, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, [n.s.]. Vol. XXV (1846), p.468.
J. C. Mangan, ‘C. R. Maturin’ in ‘Sketches and Reminiscences of Irish Writers’, No. l, in The lrishman, 24 March, 1849, p.187.
The Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 2 (March 1821), pp.141-70.
‘Death of C. R. Maturin’ in The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Vol. 9 (December 1824), p.768.
Modern Studies
Niilo Idman, Charles Robert Maturin, His Life and Works (London: Constable 1923), 326pp.
Willem Scholten, Charles Robert Maturin: The Terror-Novelist (Amsterdam: H. J. Paris 1933; NY: Garland Publ. 1981).
Niilo Idman, Charles Robert Maturin: His Life and Works [Helsingfors] (London: Constable 1923).
Robert Kiely, The Romantic Novel in England (Cambridge: Harvard UP 1972), pp.189-207.
Judson Monroe, Tragedy in the Novels of the Reverend Charles Robert Maturin (NY: Arno 1972).
H. W. Piper and A. N. Jeffares, ‘Maturin the Innovator,’ in Huntingdon Lib. Quarterly, 156 (NY: Twayne 1973).
Shirley Scott, Myths and Consciousness in the Novels of Charles Maturin (NY: Arno 1973).
Dale Kramer, Charles Robert Maturin (NY: Twayne 1973).
Claude Fiérobe, Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824) L'homme et l'oeuvre (Paris: Editions Universitaires 1974).
Robert E. Lougy, Charles Robert Maturin (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP 1975).
Charles B. Harris, Charles Robert Maturin: The Forgotten Imitator (NY: Arno 1980).
Peter Mills Henderson, A Nut Between Two Blades: The Novels of Charles Robert Maturin (NY: Arno 1980).
Henry William Hinck, Three Studies on Charles Robert Maturin (NY: Arno 1980).
David Punter, The Literature of Terror (London 1980), pp.141-49.
Patricia Coughlan, ‘The Recycling of Melmoth: "A Very German Story"’, in Wolfgang Zach and Heinz Kosok eds., Literary Interrelations: Ireland, England and the World, Vol. II: Comparison and Impact (Tübingen: Guntar Narr Verlag, 1987), pp. 181-92.
André Breton, ‘Zur Stellung von Melmoth’, foreword to German edn. of Melmoth the Wanderer; rep. in Schneider, Jürgen, and Ralf Sotscheck, Ireland: Eine Bibliographie selbständiger deutschsprachiger. [Publikationen 16; Jahrhundret bis 1989 (Verlag de Georg Büchner Buchhandlung 1989), pp.99-105.
Claude Fiérobe, ‘Irish Homes in the Works of C. R. Maturin’, in Jacqueline Genet, ed., The Big House in Ireland (Dingle: Brandon; NY: Barnes & Noble 1991), pp.71-84.
Fierobe Claude, ‘A Gothic-Historical Sermon: Maturin’s Last Novel: The Albigenses’, in Barbara Hayley & Christopher Murray, eds., Ireland and France - A Bountiful Friendship: Essays in Honour of Patrick Rafroidi (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1992), [q.pp.].
Julian Moynihan, ‘The Politics of Anglo-Irish Gothic: Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and the Return of the Repressed’, in Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture (Princeton UP 1995) [Chap. VI], pp.109-35, espec. pp.111-27.
Joseph Spence, ‘"The Great Angelic Sin": The Faust Legend in Irish Literature, 1820-1900’, in Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal, 1, 2 (Autumn 1994), pp.47-58, espec. 47-51.
Claude Fiérobe, ‘The Big House and the Fantastic: From Architecture to Literature’', in Bruce Stewart ed., That Other World: The Supernatural and Fantastic in Irish Literature and its Contexts [Princess Grace Irish Library Series No. 12] 2 vols. (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1998, Vol. 1, p.256-65, esp. 258ff.
James Hardiman (Irish Minstrelsy, 1831), pp. [lxxv-lxxvi.
Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English, Vol. 1 (1980).
Seamus Deane, Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea [Field Day Pamphlet, No. 4] (Derry: Field Day 1984): Maturin and Le Fanu took the sting out of Gothicism by allying it with an ethic of aristocratic loneliness. [… &c.]' (p.8.)
Seamus Deane, ‘Fiction and Politics: Irish Nineteenth-Century National Character 1790-1900’, in Tom Dunne, ed., The Writer as Witness: Literature as Historical Evidence (Cork UP 1987), p.83.
Claude Fierobe, ‘A Gothic-Historical Sermon, Maturin’s Last Novel, The Albigenses’, in Barbara Hayley and Chris Murray, eds., Ireland and France, A Bountfiul Friendship, Essays in Honour of Patrick Rafroidi (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1992).
Joseph Spence, ‘"The Great Angelic Sin": The Faust legend in Irish Literature, 1820-1900’, in Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal, 1, 2 (Autumn 1994), pp.47-58.
Luke Gibbons, "Some Hysterical Hatred": History, Hysteria and the Literary Revival’, in Irish University Review (Spring/Summer 1997), pp.7-23.
Gerry Smyth, The Novel and the Nation: Studies in New Irish Fiction (London: Pluto 1997),pp. (pp.52-53.)
Bibliography, ‘A List of Works of Charles Robert Maturin with Translations and Adaptions by Other Authors,’ in Melmoth the Wanderer (London: Bentley & Son 1892 [edn.].
Dale Kramer, Selected Bibliography’, in Charles Robert Maturin (NY: Twayne 1973).
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Peter Kavanagh, The Irish Theatre (Tralee: The Kerryman 1946), lists Bertram or The Castle of St. Aldobrando (DL 9 May 1816, 22 nights) 1816; Manuel (Drury Lane, 8 March 1817) printed 1817, and condemned by Coleridge; Fredolfo (Covent Garden, 12 May 1819) printed 1819; also Osmyn the Renegade or the Siege of Salerno (Th. Royal, Dublin, 30 March 1830), a failure and never printed. Kavanagh attaches the epithet ‘sentimentality and horror’ to these productions.
Brian McKenna, Irish Literature, 1800-1875: A Guide to Information Sources (Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1978), lists James Clarence Mangan, ‘Sketches and Reminiscences of Irish Writers, No. 1, Maturin’, for The Irishman (24 March 1849, [p.187]) [‘understood many people; but nobody understood him in any way’]; also [q.auth.], ‘Conversations of Maturin,’ in New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, 19 (1827), 401-11, 571-77, and ‘Recollections of Maturin’, Do. 20 (1827), 146-52, 370-76. There is a correspondence between Sir Walter Scott and Maturin, ed. Fannie Ratchford and Will McCarthy (Texas 1937). Works incl. Sermons (1819); Five Sermons on the Errors of the Roman Catholic Church ([Folds, Dub.] 1824); Lines on the Battle of Waterloo (Millikin 1816), and ‘The Universe,’ a poem [falsely ascribed to James Wills]. Bibl, ‘A List of Works of Charles Robert Maturin with translations and adaptions by Other authors,’ in Melmoth the Wanderer (London 1892 edn.); Dale Kramer, ‘Selected Bibliography,’ in Kramer, op. cit., infra.; also commentaries, Niilo Idman, Charles Robert Maturin, His Life and Works (London 1923), 326pp.; William Scholten, Charles Robert Maturin, the Terror-Novelist (Paris 1933); H. W. Piper and A. N. Jeffares, ‘Maturin the Innovator,’ in Huntingdon Lib. Quarterly, 156 (NY: Twayne 1973); Dale Kramer, Charles Robert Maturin (NY: Twayne 1973); Robert E. Loughy [?recte Lougy], Charles Robert Maturin (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP 1975). 4 Ph.D. theses in US also cited.
Patrick Rafroidi, Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period, 1789-1850 (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), Vol. 2, cites General studies of Gothic dealing with Maturin such as those by Birkhead, Killen, Lévy, Railo, Summers, Varma, and also Mario Praz, The Romantic Flame [q.d.], as well as Dictionary of National Biography, New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, &c. Also lists Niilo Idman, Charles Robert Maturin: His Life and Works (London: Constable 1923), 326pp; W. Scholten, C. R. Maturin, The Terror-Novelist (Amst: H. J. Paris 1933), 197pp; B. J. Layman, C. R. Maturin and the Romance of Terror [unpub. thesis] (Virginia Univ. 1943); A Breton, Pref. to French trans of Melmoth (Paris: Pauvert 1954); H. W. Hinck, ‘Three Studies in Maturin’, [unpub. thesis] (Iowa Univ. 1954); M. A. Ruff ‘Maturin et les Romantiques Francais, intro. to Bertram (Paris: Conti 1956), incl. bibl.; J. B. Harris, ‘Charles Robert Maturin, a study’ [unpub. diss.] (Wayne Univ. 1965); J. J. Mayoux, ‘La grande création satanique du Rev. Maturin (Baudelaire)’, Etudes Anglaises, XXII, 4, Oct-Dec. 1969, pp.393-96; Claude Fierobe, ‘L’univers fantastique de Melmoth the Wanderer’ in La Raison et l’Imaginare, SAES, Actes du Congrés de Rennes 1970 (Didier [n.d.]), pp.105-116; Fierobe, Charles Robert Maturin, L’homme et l’oeuvre (Lille: PUL, Paris: Eds. Univ. 1974), 748pp.; Claude Fierobe, ‘A propos de Maturin, ni vrai, ni faux, mais fantastique’, Etudes Irlandaises, I, 3 (1974), pp.23-28; Claude Fierobe, ‘France in the Novels of Charles Robert Maturin’, in Patrick Rafroidi, et al. eds., France-Ireland, Literary Relations (1974), pp.119-131; Robert E. Lougy, C. R. Maturin (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP 1975); Claude Fierobe, ‘Quelques image de la nature irlandaise dans l’oeuvre de C. R. Maturin’ [SAES:] Actes de Congrés de St Etienne 1975 (Didier 1977), pp.117-124; Claude Fierobe, ‘Transgression et écriture, Maturin et le roman gothique’, in Cahier du Centre du Romantisme Anglais (Clermont-Ferrand 1976); also Dale Kramer, Charles Robt. Maturin [Irish Writers ser.] (NY: Twayne 1974), 166pp; J. Birhault, ‘Joyce et Maturin, L’heritage gothique de A Portrait’, in Cahier du Centre d’Etudes Anglo-Irlandaises, Rennes, 1 (1976), pp.51-60.
Seamus Deane, gen. ed., Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day 1991), Vol. 2, selects extracts from Women; or, Pour et Contre [1115-17; long prefatory notice, ed. W. J. McCormack]; Bibl. cites Niilo Idman, Charles Robert Maturin, His Life and Works (Helsingfors 1923); W. Scholten, Charles Robert Maturin: The Terror Novelist (Amsterdam 1933); Fanny Elizabeth Rathford & William Henry McCarthy, eds., Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Robert Maturin, with a Few Other Allied Letters (Univ. of Texas 1937). FDA2 selects Melmoth the Wanderer [854-66]; Note also remarks in W. J. McCormack, editorial essay, ‘Irish Gothic’, including quotation from Maturin’s account of the death of Lord Kilwarden, with the comment: (Douglas Grau, ed., Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale (London: OUP 1968, p.257n.; FDA2, p.835.) McCormack comments, ‘Here, immediacy of both time and place has replaced the exotic and antique. Moreover, the psychoogical trait that Maturin is seeking to examine is itself founded on a kind of permanent immediacy … These precise verbal repetitions enact a kind of identification between victim and witness which is at the heart of Maturin’s novel. Ideally, it aim at an effective abolition of the reader.’ (p.834); Further, McCormack comments, despite Scott’s guarded encouragement, Maturin never disciplined his work, which is remarkable for its Gothic complications and emotional extravagance. BIOG [FDA1, 1171].
Jeffrey N. Cox, ed., Seven Gothic Dramas 1789-1825 (Athens Ohio UP 1993) [426pp.], contains rep. of Bertram, or, The Castle of St Aldobrand (1816). Note that John Mullan (reviewing in Times Literary Supplement, 24 Dec. 1993) calls it ‘the most highly regarded tragedy of the era ... even Coleridge’s attack was evidence of its achievement’, and remarks that Maturin turned assertions of emotional power into stage directions, ‘wildly; after much agitation; with frantic violence’.
British Library (Printed Catalogue to 1975) lists [1] The Albigenses. A romance. By the author of ‘Bertram’, etc. [i.e. Charles Robert Maturin]. 4 vol. Hurst, Robinson & Co.: London, 1824. 12o. [2] The History of Count Bertram, an Italian nobleman, etc. [Founded on ‘Bertram,’ by C. R. Maturin.]. pp.32. W. Mason: London, [1816?] 12o. [3] Charles Robert Maturin: his life and works. [Another issue.]. pp.326. Helsingfors, 1923. 8o. Constable & Co.: London, 1923. 8o. [4] The Wild Irish Boy [...] By the author of Montorio. 3 vol. Longman, Hurst & Co.: London, 1808. 12o. [5] Charles Robert Maturin. New York: Twayne Publishers, [1973]. ISBN 0 8057 1382 4 pp.166. 21 cm. [6] Manuel; a tragedy [...] By the author of Bertram [i.e. Charles R. Maturin]. Third edition. pp.viii, 84. John Murray: London, 1817. 8o. [7] Manuel: a tragedy, in five acts [and in verse]. By the author of Bertram [C. R. Maturin]. London, 1817. 8o. [8] Bertram; or, the Castle of St. Aldobrand [...] A romance taken from the tragedy by the Rev. R. C. Maturin. pp.30. S. Carvalho: London, [1825?] 12o. [9] Bertram; or, the Castle of St. Aldobrand [...] Ninth edition. pp.80. John Murray: London, 1817. 8o. [10] Bertram; or, the Castle of St. Aldobrand; a tragedy, in five acts [and in verse]. Second edition. Third edition. Fifth edition. London, 1816. 8o. London, 1816. 8o. London, 1816. 8o. London, 1816. 8o. [11] Bertram, or, The castle of St. Aldobrand. A tragedy in five acts. 7th ed. London: John Murray, 1816. 82p; 21cm. [12] Bertram; or, the Castle of St. Aldobrand, etc. Eng. and Fr. Paris, [1830?] 12o. [13] Bertram, or, The castle of St. Aldorand. A tragedy in five acts. 4th ed. London: John Murray, 1816. 82p; 21cm. [14] Bertram, ou Le Château de St. Aldobrand, tragédie [in prose] traduite librement de l’Anglois [...] par MM. Taylor et C. Nodier. [Another copy.] Paris, 1821. 8o. [15] Connal, ou les Milésiens [...] Traduit de l’anglais [‘The Milesian Chief’] par Madame la Comtesse *** [de Molé]. 4 tom. Paris, 1828. 12o. [16] Eva, ou amour et religion [...] Traduit de l’anglais [‘Women, or Pour et Contre’] sur la 2e édition, par M*****. 4 tom. Paris, 1818. 12o. [17] Five Sermons on the Errors of the Roman Catholic Church. Second edition. Dublin, 1824. 8o. Dublin, 1826. 12o. [18] Fredolfo; a tragedy, in five acts [and in verse]. London, 1819. 8o. [19] Melmoth, the Wanderer; a melo-drama, etc. [by B. West. Founded on the novel of C. R. Maturin]. [1830?] [20] Melmoth the Wanderer [...] A new edition from the original text, with a memoir and bibliography of Maturin’s works. 3 vol. R. Bentley & Son: London, 1892. 8o. [21] Melmoth the Wanderer; edited with an introduction by Douglas Grant. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. SBN 19 255318 6 xx, 560 p. 21 cm. [22] Melmoth the wanderer, etc. pp.542. New English Library: London, 1966. 8o. 23] Sermons. Second edition. London, 1819. 8o. London, 1821. 8o. [24] Tales of Mystery. [Extracts from the works of] [...] Maturin. Edited by G. Saintsbury. 1891. [25] The Universe: a poem. By [...] C. R. Maturin [or rather, by James Wills]. pp.108. H. Colburn & Co.: London, 1821. 8o. [26] The Milesian Chief. A romance. By the author of Montorio, and The Wild Irish Boy [i.e. Charles Robert Maturin]. 4 vol. H. Colburn: London, 1812.12o. [27] Charles Robert Maturin, the terror-novelist. Academisch proefschrift, etc. Eng. pp.197. H. J. Paris: Amsterdam, 1933. 8o. [28] Melmoth the Wanderer: a Melo-dramatic Romance, in Three Acts [and in prose], founded on the novel of that name. [By R. C. Maturin.]. [London, 1823.] 8o. [29] Women; or, Pour et Contre. A tale. By the author of ‘Bertram.’ etc. [i.e. C. R. Maturin.] [Another copy.]. 3 vol. Edinburgh, 1818. 12o. FURTHER TITLES (in combined references catalogues): [1] Fatal revenge, Charles Maturin. 1994. [2] Mel’mot skitalets Charlz Robert Met’iurin izdanie podgotovili M.P. Alekseev i A.M. Shadrin. 1983. [3] Melmouth the wanderer Charles Maturin introduced by Devendra P. Varma and illustrated by Felix Zakar. 1993. [4] Bertram or, the castle of St Aldobrand Charles Maturin. 1992. [5] Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Maturin edited by Douglas Grant with a new introduction by Chris Baldick. 1989, c1968. [6] Fatal revenge; or, The family of Montorio a romance by Dennis Jasper Murphy. 1974. [7] Melmoth the Wanderer a tale Charles Robert Maturin edited with an introduction by Althea Hayter. 1977. [8] Melmoth ratacitorul romanul gotic englez Charles Robert Maturin traducere de Bianca Zamfirescu prefata si tabel cronologic de Dan Grigorescu. 1983. [9] Mel’mot skitalets Charlz Robert Met’iurin [perevod s angliiskogo A.M. Shadrina] izdanie podgotovili M.P. Alekseev, A.M. Shadrin. 1976.
COPAC lists [1] Melmoth the Wanderer / Charles Maturin; introduced by Devendra P. Varma; and illustrated by Felix Zakar 1993. [2] Melmoth the wanderer / Charles Maturin; edited by Douglas Grant; with a new introduction by Chris Baldick 1989. 3] Bertram, or, The Castle of St Aldobrand / Charles Maturin 1992. [4] Melmoth the Wanderer: a tale / C. R. Maturin; edited with an introduction by Douglas Grant 1968. [5] The Wild Irish boy / [by] Charles Robert Maturin; with an introduction by Robert Lee Wolff 1979. [6] Women: or, Pour et contre / Charles Robert Maturin; with an introduction by Robert Lee Wolff 1979. [7] The Milesian chief / [by] Charles Robert Maturin; with an introduction by Robert Lee Wolff 1979. [8] Melmoth, the wanderer: a melo-dramatic romance, in three acts, (founded on the popular novel of that name,) performed, for the first time, at the Royal Coburg Theatre, on Monday, the 14th of July, 1823 1823. [9] Bertram: or, The castle of St. Aldobrand: a tragedy in five acts / by the Rev. R.C. Maturin 1816. 10] Bertram; or, The castle of St. Aldobrand: A tragedy, in five acts / By the Rev. R.C. Maturin; With prefatory remarks; The only edition existing which is faithfully marked with the stage business, and stage directions, as it is performed at the Theatres Royal. By W. Oxberry, comedian 1827. [11] Fatal revenge / Charles Maturin 1994. [12] Melmoth the wanderer 1965. [13] Bertram; or, Le chateau de Saint-Aldobrand / Traduit librement de l’anglais par Taylor et Ch. Nodier. Ed. commentee et precedee d’une introd. sur Maturin et les romantiques francais, par Marcel A. Ruff 1956. [14] Melmoth the Wanderer: a tale / [by] Charles Robert Maturin; edited with an introduction by Althea Hayter 1977.
James Joyce borrowed the phrase ‘mutinous Shannon waves’ in ‘The Dead’ (Dubliners, 1914) from Maturin’s Milesian Chief [information attrib. to Jean Foster].
Gulielmi Melmoth [William] was buried in Bath Cathedral in 1799, with memorial, ‘[…] ipse neque inelegans, ne ineruditus [… &c.]’.
Anthony Trollope gave the name of Maturin to his anti-hero in The Way We Live Now (1875); Oscar Wilde called used Sebastian Melmoth as a pseudonym.
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)