Author: Montague, Edward
Biography:
MONTAGUE, Edward (fl 1806-8)
There were a few contemporaries of this name who lived or died in London but there is no convincing match for the author of a flurry of works of 1806-8 issued by various London publishers, notably J. F. Hughes and the Minerva Press. His only poem, The Citizen (1806), was damned by the Monthly Mirror as “stupid, dull, and ignorant.” It is not known whether his novels and Gothic romances did any better, but they kept coming: The Castle of Berry Pomeroy (1806), The Demon of Sicily! (1807), The Legends of a Nunnery (1807), Modern Characters (1808). He might have been responsible also for two fictional works published with J. F. Hughes under the pseudonym “Edward Mortimer,” The Friar Hidargo (1807) and Montoni (1808). Given the absence of earlier or later titles under the name of such a busy writer, it seems most probable that “Edward Montague” is a pseudonym too. (ancestry.com 4 July 2023; Monthly Mirror 22 [1806], 39; EN2)