Henry Mackenzie

(August 1745 — January 14th, 1831)

Henry Mackenzie was a Scottish lawyer and novelist. While Mackenzie is remembered primarily as an author, most of his income and work was actually in the legal field — including the post of Comptroller of Taxes for Scotland. It was this lucrative profession that funded his writing pursuits.

Mackenzie was highly educated, married into nobility, and was also a Freemason. Other than The Man of Feeling, man of his novels are now difficult to find, having fallen out of public favour with the decline of the sentimental novel.

Henry Mackenzie is a book author.

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The Man of Feeling

Henry Mackenzie
18th Century UK Literature

As someone who reads classical literature — a lot of which was around before cameras were common or in some cases existent — instead of photographs, I see a lot of author portraits when I do research. This is a review of The Man of Feeling.