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Lucas Cleeve
1860–1908
A prolific English novelist and travel writer, she published more than sixty works under the pen name Lucas Cleeve before later writing as Mrs. Howard Kingscote. Her books range from popular fiction to folklore and travel writing, showing a wide and energetic literary career.
1 Audiobook
Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India
by Lucas Cleeve, Pandit Natesa Sastri
About the author
Born Adeline Georgiana Isabel Wolff, she wrote under several names, including Lucas Cleeve, Mary Walpole, and later Mrs. Howard Kingscote. She was an English novelist and travel writer from a notably literary family, and reference sources describe her as the author of more than sixty works.
Her fiction included novels such as The Woman Who Wouldn't (1895), while her wider output also reached beyond the novel. One of the better-known books linked to her name is Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India, which reflects her interest in storytelling traditions as well as popular literature.
She is remembered today as a busy and versatile late-Victorian writer whose career moved between pseudonymous publication, mainstream fiction, and travel-related or folkloric work. Because some sources differ on biographical details such as her exact birth year, it is safest to say that she lived in the later 19th century and died in 1908.