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Lucas Malet

novelist writer

Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary Street Leger Kingsley, a Victorian novelist.

Background

She was born in Eversley, Hampshire, the daughter of Charles Kingsley (author of The Water Babies).

Achievements

  • Lucas Malet was an outstanding novelist who began the writing at the end of the Victorian Age and carried through the Edwardian Age into the Modernist Period.

Works

All works

Connections

Father:
Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist.

Mother:
Frances Eliza Grenfell

husband:
William Harrison

Friend:
Henry James