Malet, Lucas, 1852-1931

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Malet, Lucas

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Harrison, Mary St. Leger, Kingsley, 1852-1931

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Harrison, Mary S. 1852-1931

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Harrison, Mary Saint-Léger Kingsley

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Kinglsey, Mary St. Leger, 1852-1931

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Malet, Lucas, Pseud. de Mary Saint-Léger Kingsley

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Malet, Lucas, Pseud. de Mary Saint-Léger Kingsley

Harrison Mary Saint-Leger 1852-1931

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Kingsley, Mary St. Leger 1852-1931

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Kingsley, Mary St. Leger 1852-1931

Harrison, Mary Saint-Leger

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Harrison, Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852-

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Kingsley, Mary St. Leger.

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Harrison, Mary St. Leger.

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Harrison, Mary St. Leger 1852-1931

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1852-06-04

1852-06-04

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1931-10-27

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Lucas Malet was the pen name of Mary St. Leger Kingsley Harrison, an English novelist, and younger daughter of clergyman and author Charles Kingsley. She studied at the Slade, then turned to writing extremely popular novels considered scandalous since they used themes of illicit sex, sadism, masochism, and misogyny.

From the description of Mary St. Leger Harrison letters, 1906. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 60718009

English woman novelist.

From the description of Mrs. Lorimer, 1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367316391 From the description of Colonel Enderby's wife, 1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367316393 From the description of Little Peter : a Christmas morality for children of any age, 1888. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367329319 From the description of Little Peter [electronic resource] : a Christmas morality for children of any age, 1888. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 663215288 From the description of Colonel Enderby's wife [electronic resource], 1885. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 663118170

Lucas Malet (1852-1931) was an English novelist. Her real name was Mary St. Leger Kingsley Harrison.

Mary St Leger Kingsley was born on June 4, 1852 in Eversley, Hampshire, England, third of four children of social reformer Reverend Charles Kingsley and his wife Frances Eliza Grenfell. Mary studied under Sir Edward Poynter at the Slade School of Fine Art in the early 1870s. In 1876 she married Reverend William Harrison, her father's curate, and left behind her artistic career. Unfortunately the marriage was unhappy and childless; the couple soon amicably separated. Mary's began writing under the pseudonym Lucas Malet began at the end of the Victorian Age and carried through the Edwardian Age into the Modernist Period. Among her best known works are Colonel Enderby's Wife, The Wages of Sin, and The History of Sir Richard Calmady. Mary travelled extensively, living part of the year in Switzerland. She died in Tenby, Wales on October 27, 1931.

From the guide to the In memoriam, Ernest D. Chesterfield / by Lucas Malet, date of production not identified, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

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