ABSTRACT
Lewis Melville (1874-1932) was the pseudonym of Lewis Saul Benjamin, prolific author of studies, mainly on the subject of eighteenth-century literature and culture. His many publications included The Beaux of the Regency (1908), Beau Brummell: His Life and Letters (1924), studies of Smollett, Cobbett, Thackeray, Sterne, Horace Walpole, and John Gay, and an edition of the Huskisson papers (1931). Though much of his work was on male writers, he edited the papers of Mary and Agnes Berry (1914), and the memoirs of Elizabeth, Margravine of Ansbach (1914), and wrote besides many biographies of famous women, including Caroline of Brunswick, Nell Gwynn and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
