Lucas Cleeve (1868–1908) was a novelist born in England, the author of over sixty works including The Woman Who Wouldn't in 1895. Most of her novels were published under the pseudonym of Mrs Howard Kingscote.
Cleeve was the only daughter of Henry Drummond Wolff, a titled minister of the English government. She is recorded in Who's Who as a traveller and linguist. Her name is noted after her marriage as Adeline Georgina Isabella Kingscote, or Mrs Howard Kingscote.
The author of many novels, she also compiled a book of Indian folklore[1], a work entitled The English Baby in India and How to Rear it, but the most famous novel was a response to Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did."
Cleeve's first edition of The Woman Who Wouldn't (1895) sold well and received hostile reviews, she said of this,
"If one young girl is kept from a loveless, mistaken marriage, if one frivilous nature is checked in her career of flirtation by remembrance of Lady Morris, I shall perhaps be forgiven by the public for raising my feeble voice in anser to the The Woman Who Did,"
Her life ended in Switzerland.[2]