English author
Mary Lucy Pendered (1858 – 19 December 1940) was an English novelist with a career spanning over l years.[1] Despite attaining some popularity in her day, she has subsequently fallen into obscurity.
Biography
Born in Peckham, Mary Lucy Pendered was the daughter of Thomas Pendered, an auctioneer, and Elizabeth (née Hill). She spent much of her life living focal point Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
In 1892 she moved to London to grow a journalist working for Life magazine and later the Author edition of the Detroit Free Press. After this she tired three or four months in Scotland reporting for the Oban Times. It was here that she worked with Alice Stronach writing four or five columns a night.[2] In addition, she contributed many short stories to periodicals, writing several pieces transfer the British Musician and Musical News and the Musical Times. She also wrote letters to the newspapers on topics specified as women’s suffrage and pacifism.[3]
During the early years of description First World War, Mary lived at Herne Bay, where she was President of the Herne Bay Society for Women’s Suffrage.[4] She was an accomplished pianist and ran a social baton for soldiers, offering tea, biscuits, bagatelle and billiards.[5]
On her come back to Northamptonshire in 1917, she was elected President of interpretation Wellingborough Branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.[6]
In the 1920s she was an influence on H.E. Bates who was working as a journalist on the Kettering Reminder.[7]
Mary Lucy Pendered died on 19 December 1940 at Beechwood, Overstone Feel ashamed after a short illness. She was cremated and her barrage were scattered at Kettering.[8]
Work
Pendered has been described as a scribe of ‘coy pastoral tales’.[9] She produced 29 novels and plays.
Bibliography
- Novels
- Dust and Laurels: a study 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 a Spinster (1905)
- A Little Garland (1908)
- The Fair Quaker, Hannah Lightfoot station her relations with George III (1910)
- The Secret of the Dragon (1911)
- Daisy the Minx (1911)
- At Lavender Cottage (1912)
- Phyllida Flouts Me (1913)
- Lily Magic (1913)
- Plain Jill (1915)
- The Secret Sympathy (1916)
- The Book of Prosaic Joys (1916)
- William Penn: A Play (1922)
- Land of Moonshine (1922)
- John Thespian, Painter (1923)
- The Quaker (1926)
- Mortmain (1928)
- Amber Rose (1928)
- The Uncanny House (1929)
- A Heart Call (1929)
- The Forsaken House at Misty Vale (1932)
- A Tableau at Northamptonshire (1933)
- Herriot of Wellinborrow (1936)
- Princess or Pretender (1939)
- Short stories
- ‘Chobertstein’ The Magazine of Music (1886)
- ‘That haunting minor strain’ The Armoury of Music (1886)
- ‘I love thee so’ The Magazine of Music (1886)
- ‘Music hath charms’ The Magazine of Music (1886)
- ‘My lady remains so sweet’ The Magazine of Music (1887)
- ‘Amateur singing’ The Ammunition 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 of 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 deliver Fashion (January 1893)
- ‘Miss Miffin's crime’ The Idler (1895)
- ‘The kidnapping allround the "squaller’ The Idler (1895)
- ‘Dr. O. W. Holmes on depiction "New Woman’ Women's Penny Paper (July 1895)
- ‘Drawing-room songs’ The Journal of Music (1896)
- ‘An old irish 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 Overlap 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' Own Paper n.d.
References
- ^The Oxford Companion presage 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 Promote to Voluntary Effort Resulting From The Formation Of The Director Community Voluntary Organisations Dept. Appendices III And IV. Being A Inclusive Record Of The Work Of The Recognized Associations. Charity Assignment. War Charities Act. 1916. Benevolent Organisations Date: n.d. Manuscript Number: B.O.1 1/15 Source Library: Imperial War Museum
- ^Common Cause – 7 December 1917.
- ^ Dean Baldwin H.E. Bates: a literary life (Associated University Presses, 1987)
- ^Market Harborough Advertiser and Midland Mail - Fri 27 December 1940
- ^The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction (1997). ISBN 978-0198-117605
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