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Henry Mackenzie FRSE (August 1745 – 14 January 1831, born and died in Edinburgh) was a Scottish lawyer, novelist and writer sometimes seen as the Addison of the North. While remembered mostly as an author, his main income came from legal roles, which led in 1804–1831 to a lucrative post as Comptroller of Taxes for Scotland, whose possession ...
Mar 25, 2024 · Henry Mackenzie was a Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, and editor, whose most important novel, The Man of Feeling, established him as a major literary figure in Scotland. His work had considerable influence on Sir Walter Scott, who dedicated his Waverley novels to him in 1814.
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The Man of Feeling is a sentimental novel published in 1771, written by Scottish author Henry Mackenzie. The novel presents a series of moral vignettes which the naïve protagonist Harley either observes, is told about, or participates in.
Published online: 23 September 2004. Henry Mackenzie ( 1745–1831) by Sir Henry Raeburn, c. 1810. © National Portrait Gallery, London. Mackenzie, Henry ( 1745–1831 ), writer, was born in Edinburgh on 26 July 1745, the son of Joshua Mackenzie, a prosperous physician, and his wife, Margaret Rose of Kilravock, eldest daughter of the sixteenth ...
Jul 5, 2014 · Henry Mackenzie, the son of an Edinburgh physician, was born in August, 1745. After education in the University of Edinburgh he went to London in 1765, at the age of twenty, for law studies, returned to Edinburgh, and became Crown Attorney in the Scottish Court of Exchequer.
Overview. Henry Mackenzie. (1745—1831) writer. Quick Reference. (1745–1831), author of the influential novel, The Man of Feeling (1771). In 1773 he published The Man of the World, in which the protagonist is a villain; and in 1777 Julia de Roubigné, a novel in the manner of Richardson's Clarissa.
Henry Mackenzie was editor of the Mirror and Lounger journals and an influential figure among Edinburgh's literati. He was one of the founders of the Royal Society in 1783 and was appointed.
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