Lucas Malet

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

She was born in Eversley, Hampshire, 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)
Colonel 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
Georgina Battiscombe, ‘Harrison , Mary St Leger (1852–1931)’, rev. Katharine Chubbuck, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
"Harrison, Mary St. Leger". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.

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Persondata
Name	Malet, Lucas
Alternative names	Mary St. Leger Harrison; Mary St. Leger Kingsley
Short description	English novelist
Date of birth	4 June 1852
Place of birth	Eversley, Hampshire
Date of death	1931
Place of death

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