Mary Cholmondeley

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MC 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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

October 1899

MC 's best-known and most controversial novel, Red Pottage, was published by Edward Arnold .
The University of Alberta copy of Red Pottage contains a brief inscription from MC to Rhoda Broughton .
Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 213-28.
214

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 .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

15 July 1925

Novelist MC died at sixty-six at Kensington in West London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(17 July 1925): 19

Biography

Birth and Family

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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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