LUCAS

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• LUCAS MALET

MALET  , the pen-name of Mary St Leger Harrison (1852- ), English novelist . She was the eldest daughter of Charles Kingsley, and was born at Eversley on the 4th of June 1852 . She studied at the Slade school and at University College, London, and married in 1876 William Harrison, rector of Clovelly . After her husband's death in 1897 she eventually settled in London . She had already written several books—Mrs Lorimer (1882), Colonel Enderby's Wife (1885), Little Peter (1887), A Counsel of Perfection (1888)—when she published her powerful story, The Wages of Sin (1891), which attracted great attention . Her History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) had an even greater success . Her other novels include The Carissima (1896), The Gateless Barrier (1900), On the Far Horizon (1906) .