Lucas Malet
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Times obituary stated that her place in literary history was secure.
, author of eighteen novels in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was a great admirer of French fiction. Her books are hard to classify generically, having elements of the sensation novel (adultery, illicit sex, indirect murder, female protagonists who are heartlessly self-seeking), of satire, psychological analysis, and social protest. She breaks the taboos of genteel English fiction by lifting the lid of respectable life to reveal its members as engaged a in cut-throat struggle for status or survival. Her
Biography
More than one form of Lucas Malet, but although she married before her first publication the MLA Bibliography lists her as Mary St Leger Kingsley.
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