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Henry Mackenzie

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Henry Mackenzie 1745–1831, English author, b. Scotland. He had an active political and legal life, serving as comptroller of taxes for Scotland from 1804 until his death. His first and most famous novel, The Man of Feeling (1771), is a series of loosely joined episodes describing the adventures of a highly sentimental and good-natured man. His other novels are The Man of the World (1773) and Julia de Roubigne (1777). Of his four plays the only one to achieve any success was The Prince of Tunis (1773).

Bibliography: See his letters, ed. by H. Drescher (1967); biography by G. A. Barker (1975).

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Mackenzie, Henry (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. Mackenzie was chairman of the committee that investigated Macpherson's ‘Ossian’. He has been referred to as ‘the Addison of the North’. (See sentiment, novel of.)

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