LUCAS MALET
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V17,
Page 488
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LUCAS MALET
, the pen-name of Mary St Leger Harrison (1852- ), English novelist
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She was the eldest daughter of Charles Kingsley, and was born at Eversley on the 4th of June 1852
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She studied at the Slade school and at University College, London, and married in 1876 See also: - WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Harrison, rector of Clovelly
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After her husband's death in 1897 she eventually settled in London
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She had already written several books—Mrs Lorimer (1882), Colonel Enderby's Wife (1885), Little See also: - PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter (1887), A Counsel of Perfection (1888)—when she published her powerful story, The Wages of Sin (1891), which attracted great attention
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Her History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) had an even greater success
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Her other novels include The Carissima (1896), The Gateless Barrier (1900), On the Far Horizon (1906)
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