Lucas Malet is the pseudonym (pen-name) of Mary St. Leger Kingsley (1852-1931), a 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. Her works include: 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 (1891), The Carissima: A Modern Grotesque (1896), The Gateless Barrier (1900), The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901), The Far Horizon (1906), Adrian Savage (1911), Deadham Hard (1919), The Tall Villa (1920), The Survivors (1923) and The Pool (1930). She also completed her father's unfinished novel The Tutor's Story (1916).
Dominic Iglesias stood watching while the lingering June twilight darkened into night. He was tired in body, but his mind was eminently, consciously awake, to the point of restlessness, and this was unusual with him. . . .
Lucas Malet is the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (1852-1931), a Victorian novelist. Her works include "A Counsel of Perfection," "The Carissima," "The Pool," and others. "The History of Sir Richard Calmady" is thought to be based on the life of Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh, an Irish politician who had an extraordinary career.
Lucas Malet is the pseudonym (pen-name) of Mary St. Leger Kingsley (1852-1931), a 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. Her works include: 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 (1891), The Carissima: A Modern Grotesque (1896), The Gateless Barrier (1900), The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901), The Far Horizon (1906), Adrian Savage (1911), Deadham Hard (1919), The Tall Villa (1920), The Survivors (1923) and The Pool (1930). She also completed her father's unfinished novel The Tutor's Story (1916).
Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (4 June 1852 - 1931), a Victorian novelist. Of her novels, The Wages of Sin (1891) and The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) were especially popular. Malet scholar Talia Schaffer notes that she was "widely regarded as one of the premier writers of fiction in the English-speaking world" at the height of her career, but her reputation declined by the end of her life and today she is rarely read or studied. At the height of her popularity she was "compared favorably to Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, with sales rivaling Rudyard Kipling." Malet's fin de siecle novels offer "detailed, sensitive investigations of the psychology of masochism, perverse desires, unconventional gender roles, and the body.
Lucas Malet is the pseudonym of Mary St. Leger Kingsley, a Victorian writer and the daughter of Charles Kingsley (author of The Water Babies.) Deadham Hard: A Romance, originally published in 1919, is the story of the occupants of Tandy's Castle, the Verity Family, and specifically young Tom Verity and his enchanting cousin, Damaris. "A peculiar magic resides in running water, as every student of earth-lore knows. There is high magic, too, in the marriage of rivers, so that the spot where two mingle their streams is sacred, endowed with strange properties of evocation and of purification." The Veritys live in just such a place, a perfect setting for a classic romance.
Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (4 June 1852 - 1931), a Victorian novelist. Of her novels, The Wages of Sin (1891) and The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) were especially popular. Malet scholar Talia Schaffer notes that she was "widely regarded as one of the premier writers of fiction in the English-speaking world" at the height of her career, but her reputation declined by the end of her life and today she is rarely read or studied. At the height of her popularity she was "compared favorably to Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, with sales rivaling Rudyard Kipling." Malet's fin de siecle novels offer "detailed, sensitive investigations of the psychology of masochism, perverse desires, unconventional gender roles, and the body.
Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (4 June 1852 - 1931), a Victorian novelist. Of her novels, The Wages of Sin (1891) and The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) were especially popular. Malet scholar Talia Schaffer notes that she was "widely regarded as one of the premier writers of fiction in the English-speaking world" at the height of her career, but her reputation declined by the end of her life and today she is rarely read or studied. At the height of her popularity she was "compared favorably to Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, with sales rivaling Rudyard Kipling." Malet's fin de siecle novels offer "detailed, sensitive investigations of the psychology of masochism, perverse desires, unconventional gender roles, and the body.
Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (4 June 1852 - 1931), a Victorian novelist. Of her novels, The Wages of Sin (1891) and The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) were especially popular. Malet scholar Talia Schaffer notes that she was "widely regarded as one of the premier writers of fiction in the English-speaking world" at the height of her career, but her reputation declined by the end of her life and today she is rarely read or studied. At the height of her popularity she was "compared favorably to Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, with sales rivaling Rudyard Kipling." Malet's fin de siecle novels offer "detailed, sensitive investigations of the psychology of masochism, perverse desires, unconventional gender roles, and the body.
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