Lucas Malet

Lucas Malet is the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (4 June 1852 Eversley, Hampshire - 1931), a Victorian novelist.

She was the daughter of Charles Kingsley, the author of The Water Babies. In 1876, she married William Harrison, Minor Canon of Westminster, and Priest-in-Ordinary to the Queen.

Works

• Mrs Lorimer: A Study in Black and White (1882)
• Colonel Enderby's Wife (1885)
• Little Peter: A Christmas Morality for Children of Any Age (1888)
• A Counsel of Perfection (1888)
• The Wages of Sin (1890)
• The Carissima: A Modern Grotesque (1896)
• The Gateless Barrier (1900)
• The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901), based on the life of Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh
• The Far Horizon (1907)
• Adrian Savage (1911)
• Deadham Hard (1919)
• The Tall Villa (1920)
• The Survivors (1923)
• The Pool (1930)

She also completed her father's unfinished novel The Tutor's Story.

External links

• Works by Lucas Malet at Project Gutenberg
• 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
•  "Harrison, Mary St. Leger". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.