Lucy Clifford
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Lucy Clifford (1846 - April 21, 1929), better known as Mrs W K Clifford, was a British novelist and journalist, the wife of William Kingdon Clifford.
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Lucy Clifford was born Lucy Lane, the daughter of John Lane of Barbados, and married Clifford in 1875. After his death in 1879, she earned herself a prominent place in English literary life as a novelist, and later as a dramatist. Her best-known story, Mrs Keith's Crime (1885), was followed by several other volumes, the best-known of which is Aunt Anne (1893). She wrote also The Last Touches and Other Stories (1892) and Mere Stories (1896); and a play, A Woman Alone (1898). She is perhaps most often remembered, however, as the author of The Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise (1882): a collection of stories written for her children.
Clifford also wrote cinema adaptations of her short stories and plays. At least two films were produced from her adaptations: The Likeness of the Night (1922), directed by Percy Nash and Eve's Lover (1925), directed by Roy Del Ruth.
She had a wide circle of literary friends, amongst them Henry James. Her daughter Ethel Clifford (d.1959), later Lady Dilke, having married Sir Fisher Wentworth Dilke, 4th Baronet (1877-1944) in 1905, was a published poet.
