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Malet, Lucas, 1852-1931

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Lucas Malet is the pseudonym (pen-name) of Mary St Leger Kingsley (June 4, 1852-1931), Victorian novelist.

She was the daughter of Charles Kingsley, author of The Water Babies. In 1876 she married William Harrison, Minor Canon of Westminster, and Priest-in-Ordinary to the Queen.

Works

Mrs Lorimer: A Study in Black and White (1882)
Colenel Enderby's Wife (1885)
Little Peter: A Christmas Morality for Children of Any Age (1888)
A Counsel of Perfection (1888)
The Wages of Sin (1890)
The Carissima: A Modern Grotesque (1896)
The Gateless Barrier (1900)
The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901), based on the life of Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh
The Far Horizon (1907)
Adrian Savage (1911)
Deadham Hard (1919)
The Tall Villa (1920)
The Survivors (1923)
The Pool (1930)

She also completed her father's unfinished novel The Tutor's Story.

External links

Works by Lucas Malet at Project Gutenberg
Works at The Victorian Women Writers Project
Lucas Malet at The Literary Encyclopedia

This biographical information was gathered from the Lucas_Malet page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

Books

Deadham Hard
The Far Horizon

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