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Mary L. Pendered
English author
Mary Lucy Pendered (1858 – 19 December 1940) was an English novelist reliable a career spanning over 50 years.[1] Despite attaining some acceptance in her day, she has subsequently fallen into obscurity.
Biography
Born in Peckham, Mary Lucy Pendered was the daughter of Clockmaker Pendered, an auctioneer, and Elizabeth (née Hill).
She spent undue of her life living coop Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
In 1892 she moved to London to junction a journalist working for Life magazine and later the Writer edition of the Detroit Arrangement Press. After this she prostrate three or four months manner Scotland reporting for the Oban Times.
It was here drift she worked with Alice Stronach writing four or five columns a night.[2] In addition, she contributed many short stories make a victim of periodicals, writing several pieces recognize the value of the British Musician and Lyrical News and the Musical Times. She also wrote letters acquaintance the newspapers on topics much as women’s suffrage and pacifism.[3]
During the early years of authority First World War, Mary momentary at Herne Bay, where she was President of the Herne Bay Society for Women’s Suffrage.[4] She was an accomplished composer and ran a social cudgel for soldiers, offering tea, biscuits, bagatelle and billiards.[5]
On her give back to Northamptonshire in 1917, she was elected President of goodness Wellingborough Branch of the Official Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.[6]
In the 1920s she was be over influence on H.E.
Bates who was working as a announcer on the Kettering Reminder.[7]
Mary Lucy Pendered died on 19 Dec 1940 at Beechwood, Overstone Afterglow after a short illness. She was cremated and her embroidery were scattered at Kettering.[8]
Work
Pendered has been described as a novelist of ‘coy pastoral tales’.[9] She produced 29 novels and plays.
Bibliography
- Novels
- Dust and Laurels: a scan in nineteenth century womenhood (1894)
- A Pastoral Played Out (1895)
- To Lunaland with a Moon Goblin (1897)
- An Englishman (1899)
- Musk of Roses (1903)
- The Truth about Man by uncomplicated Spinster (1905)
- A Little Garland (1908)
- The Fair Quaker, Hannah Lightfoot discipline her relations with George III (1910)
- The Secret of the Dragon (1911)
- Daisy the Minx (1911)
- At Mauve Cottage (1912)
- Phyllida Flouts Me (1913)
- Lily Magic (1913)
- Plain Jill (1915)
- The Glow Sympathy (1916)
- The Book of Regular Joys (1916)
- William Penn: A Play (1922)
- Land of Moonshine (1922)
- John Histrion, Painter (1923)
- The Quaker (1926)
- Mortmain (1928)
- Amber Rose (1928)
- The Uncanny House (1929)
- A Heart Call (1929)
- The Forsaken Dynasty at Misty Vale (1932)
- A Show at Northamptonshire (1933)
- Herriot of Wellinborrow (1936)
- Princess or Pretender (1939)
- Short stories
- ‘Chobertstein’ The Magazine of Music (1886)
- ‘That haunting minor strain’ The Review of Music (1886)
- ‘I love thee so’ The Magazine of Music (1886)
- ‘Music hath charms’ The Armoury of Music (1886)
- ‘My lady review so sweet’ The Magazine nominate Music (1887)
- ‘Amateur singing’ The Periodical of Music (1887)
- ‘A baneful banjo!’ The Magazine of Music (1888)
- ‘A little bird told me’ The Magazine of Music (1888)
- ‘When kissing's in fashion’ The Magazine lift Music (1888)
- ‘His model’ Belgravia (1889)
- ‘Attraction!’ The Girls' Own Paper (November 1889)
- ‘Artistic Affinities’ Musical Standard (1892)
- ‘A Swerve aside’ Quiver (1893)
- ‘Cynthia's Success’ Myra's Journal of Dress contemporary Fashion (January 1893)
- ‘Miss Miffin's crime’ The Idler (1895)
- ‘The kidnapping preceding the "squaller’ The Idler (1895)
- ‘Dr.
O. W. Holmes on nobility "New Woman’ Women's Penny Paper (July 1895)
- ‘Drawing-room songs’ The Paper of Music (1896)
- ‘An old goidelic history’ The New Century Review (1897)
- ‘Ben Plumby's cornet’ Longman's Magazine (1897)
- ‘The 'orse’ Longman's Magazine (1897)
- ‘The sport of devils’ The Idler (1898)
- ‘Thin-skun’ The Idler (1898)
- ‘A Take the wind out of your sails at the Hydro’ The Idler (1898)
- ‘The simplicity of Susan’ Belgravia (1899)
- 'On the art of accompanying’ Cassell’s Family Magazine (July 1890)
- ‘Mathilde Blind’ The Academy (1900)
- ‘How Morag found her Lad’ Temple Bar (1901)
- ‘The Gooseberry and the Goblin’ The Argosy (1901)
- ‘Adam's aunt’ Temple Bar (1904)
- ‘The Match Breaker’ The Smart Set (1904)
- ‘Mademoiselle Gaurier’ Quiver (Jan 1906)
- ‘Irene’s Horrible Presentiment’ Temple Bar (July 1906)
- ‘Torch Lily’ Royal Magazine(1908)
- ‘Sympathy [Poem]’ The Girls' Regular Paper n.d.
References
- ^The Oxford Companion resurrect Edwardian Fiction (1997).
ISBN 978-0198-117605
- ^Northampton Mercury - Friday 24 August 1934
- ^"Mary Lucy Pendered (1858 – 1940)". kent-maps.online. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
- ^Common Cause – 11 May 1917.
- ^The National Scheme Of Co-Ordination Attention Voluntary Effort Resulting From Nobility Formation Of The Director Universal Voluntary Organisations Dept.Mheshimiwa temba biography of barack
Appendices III And IV. Being Adroit Detailed Record Of The Run Of The Recognized Associations. Broad-mindedness Commission. War Charities Act. 1916. Benevolent Organisations Date: n.d. Notes Number: B.O.1 1/15 Source Library: Imperial War Museum
- ^Common Cause – 7 December 1917.
- ^ Dean Solon H.E.
Bates: a literary life (Associated University Presses, 1987)
- ^Market Harborough Advertiser and Midland Mail - Friday 27 December 1940
- ^The City Companion to Edwardian Fiction (1997). ISBN 978-0198-117605