Morality and Blood: William Child Green

Abstract

In 1826 William Child Green was only one of a handful of authors still actively producing Gothic novels. Little is known about the late Gothic novelist except that he was born in London on 5 September 1802.¹ He resided in Walworth, where he frequented both social and literary circles; his portrait by le Compte de Carne is preserved in his fifth novel The Prophecy of Duncannon; or, The Dwarf and the Seer (1.249). He was the author of six late Gothic novels including The Maniac of the Desert (1821), The Woodland Family; or, The Sons of Error and The Daughters of Simplicity (1824), The Pays of Loch Lomond (1824), The Sicilian Boy (1824), Alibeg the Tempter: A Tale Wild and Wonderful (1.10) and The Algerines; or, The Twins of Naples (1.9).²