Lucas Malet
Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Harrison (4 June 1852 – 27 October 1931), a Victorian novelist. Of her novels, The Wages of Sin (1891) and The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) were especially popular.[1]
Life
She was born in Eversley, Hampshire, the daughter of Charles Kingsley (author of The Water Babies). In 1876, she married William Harrison,[2] Minor Canon of Westminster, and Priest-in-Ordinary to the Queen; but the marriage was unhappy, and Malet lived for most of her life on the Continent with the singer Gabrielle Vallings.[3]
Literary development
Malet's The Gateless Barrier (1900) is a novel-length ghost story[4] — an example of how, where her early novels were genteel Victorian romances, by the 1890s Malet was using the ideas of the aesthetic movement to explore more transgressive themes, such as adultery and sadism.[5] Her later novels, such as The Survivors (1923) are proto-modernist in their explorations of marginal consciousnesses.[6]
E. F. Benson ackowledged his debt to her critical advice in his memoir Our Family Affairs.[7]
Works
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She also completed her father's unfinished novel The Tutor's Story.
See also
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Notes
- ↑ I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1995) p. 594
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- ↑ Lundberg (2003).
- ↑ "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..." — Schaffer (2000), p. 98.
- ↑ Schaffer (2000), p. 199.
- ↑ Schaffer (2000), p. 199.
- ↑ Lundberg (2003), p. 162.
- ↑ Attkins, Edgar (1893). "Lucas Malet's Wages of Sin," The Manchester Quarterly, Vol. XII, No. 47, pp. 247–61.
References
- Lundberg, Patricia Lorimer (2003). An Inward Necessity. New York: Peter Lang.
- Schaffer, Talia (2000). The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
External links
- Works by Lucas Malet at Project Gutenberg
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- 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
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