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Lucas Cleeve
1860–1908
A prolific late-Victorian novelist and travel writer, she published under the pen name Lucas Cleeve before later books appeared as Mrs Howard Kingscote. Her work ranged from popular fiction to travel and folklore writing, and she produced more than sixty books in a remarkably busy career.
1 Audiobook
Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India
by Lucas Cleeve, Pandit Natesa Sastri
About the author
Born Adeline Georgiana Isabella Kingscote, née Wolff, she was an English novelist and travel writer who also wrote under the names Lucas Cleeve, Mary Walpole, and Mrs Howard Kingscote. Reliable reference sources describe her as a prolific author of more than sixty works, including novels as well as travel writing and folklore-related books.
She was born in Corfu and later married Colonel Howard Kingscote. A local historical source notes that she lived at Bury Knowle House in Headington in the late 1890s with her husband and their three children.
Today she is remembered as one of those energetic popular writers whose books helped fill the shelves of late Victorian readers. Her long list of titles and her use of several pen names give a sense of both her versatility and the pace at which she wrote.