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Francis Lathom


Born
in Rotterdam, Netherlands
July 14, 1774

Died
May 19, 1832

Genre
Fiction


Francis Lathom (1774-1832) was born in July 1774 at Rotterdam to Henry and Sarah Lathom. Henry Lathom was a Norwich merchant engaged in business with the East India Company in Holland. Around 1777, the family returned to the vicinity of Norwich, and in the 1790s Lathom began to pen plays for the Theatre Royal Norwich, including the comedies All in a Bustle (1795) and The Dash of the Day (1800), the latter of which was acted to “universal applause” and ran into at least four editions. In 1795, Lathom published his first novel, The Castle of Ollada, a Gothic romance indebted to Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764).

In 1797, Lathom married Diana Ganning, daughter of Daniel Ganning, a wealthy ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 190 ratings · 28 reviews · 82 distinct works • Similar authors
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Italian Mysteries
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The Water Spectre
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