Mary Cholmondeley wrote mainly popular fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that was often both melodramatic and satiric. Her corpus includes novels, short stories, family memoirs, and some articles. It was largely ignored by critics for many years, but the emergence of feminist criticism led to reconsideration of her writing and its place in the 'New Woman' movement.
Milestones
8 June 1859 MC was born in the rectory at
Hodnet in
Shropshire; she was the first daughter and third child in a family of eight.
1921 MC's final work to appear in print, a collection of short stories entitled
The Romance of His Life, and Other Romances, was published by
John Murray. She dedicated the work to her friend
Percy Lubbock.
15 July 1925 Novelist MC died at sixty-six at
Kensington in West London.
