Mackenzie, Henry (1745–1831)

Scottish novelist and essayist. The Man of Feeling, an important sentimental novel, was published anonymously 1771 and attracted much attention. It was followed by the contrasting work The Man of the World 1773. Like the others, Julia de Roubigné 1777 was written in a strain of high-wrought sentimentalism. The entertaining Anecdotes and Egotisms was published 1927.

Born in Edinburgh, Mackenzie was also a lawyer, becoming crown attorney for Scotland and comptroller of its taxes 1804.