Mary wished to stand on her own laurels as a writer and not on that of her published relatives, so she combined two little-known family names into Lucas Malet as her pseudonym. Unhappy and childless the couple soon amicably separated. In 1876 she married Reverend William Harrison, her father's curate, and left behind her artistic career. Her father, niece, and cousin were all writers, but to date Mary has been the least studied of the Kingsley authors.Įarly in life Mary was educated at home, and she studied art under Sir Edward Poynter. Yet after Mary's death her writings fell into obscurity. She was called the best woman novelist since George Eliot, whose writings and approach to female authorship During her lifetime her critical acclaim rivaled well known authors such as Rudyard Kipling. Mary's writing under the pseudonym Lucas Malet began at the end of the Victorian Age and carried through the Edwardian Age into the Novelist Mary St Leger Kingsley (1852-1931) was born in Hampshire, England, third of four children of social reformer Reverend Charles Kingsley and his
0 kommentar(er)
