 Secondly, Lathom may be considered among the first gay writers.His Gothic novels often deal, albeit in a muted fashion, with subversive sexuality; his later works, including the novella "The One-Pound Note" (1820) and the novel "Live and Learn", deal in a more surprisingly obvious way with the subject of mutual love between two men.Many of his novels attack infidelity however and champion a moral attitude to family affairs.