Reproduction of the original: Journal of a West India Proprietor by Matthew Gregory Lewis

Reproduction of the original: Journal of a West India Proprietor by Matthew Gregory Lewis

This work provides a valuable insight into plantation life in Jamaica in the early 1800s. Englishman Matthew Gregory Lewis wrote it during his first journey to his plantations ...

This journal of two visits to Jamaica between 1815 and 1818 by novelist Matthew 'Monk' Lewis was published in 1834.

English novelist MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS (17751818) earned the nickname "Monk" Lewis after the success of his novel The Monk. But here, in this nonfiction work, he dramatizes ...