Lucas Malet

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,^[1] Minor Canon of Westminster, and Priest-in-Ordinary to the Queen.

Fiction

Malet's The Gateless Barrier (1900) is a novel-length ghost story.^[2]

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.

References

1. "Harrison, Mary St. Leger". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 790.
2. "in Malet's The Gateless Barrier, set at the end of the nineteenth century, the ghost of an eighteenth-century woman lives in "the yellow drawing-room..."Talia Schaffer, The Forgotten Female aesthetes : literary culture in late-Victorian England. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000. ISBN 0813919363 (p. 98)

External links

• Works by Lucas Malet at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Lucas Malet at Internet Archive
• Works by Lucas Malet at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• 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.