Rosina Margaret Hopkins Clarke (1873 – 3 May 1955) was a British author who used the pseudonym Mayne Lindsay.
Mayne Lindsay | |
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| Born | 1873  London |
| Died | 3 May 1955 (aged 81–82) Hindhead |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Spouse(s) | Arthur Wellesley Clarke |
Rosina Margaret Hopkins was born on 1873 in London, the daughter of David Hopkins, a British consul serving in Africa. In her early life she spent three years in India, where her brother was a judge, and a year on a sheep farm in Australia. She married Sir Arthur Wellesley Clarke CBE, a naval captain, in 1897 and they had two children.[1]
She began publishing stories while a teenager, and her travels provided themes and settings for her fiction. Her The Valley of Sapphires is a collection of stories about India. Her novel Prophet Peter is about a man with the power of second sight who gains a large following.[1][2] Her story "The Little Pale Man" was adapted for the stage by Frederick Fenn as The Nelson Touch (1907).[3][4][5] Of her pseudonym, she said "I have enjoyed the shelter of a pen-name against myself, and I have liked to fancy that by its help 'Mayne Lindsay' might be enabled to do things I was sure the familiar 'I' could never accomplish."[6]
Mayne Lindsay died on 3 May 1955 at a nursing home in Hindhead.[7]
Bibliography
edit- The Valley of Sapphires. 1 vol. London: Ward, Lock, 1899.[1]
- The Whirligig. 1 vol. London: Ward, Lock, 1901.[1]
- Prophet Peter: A Study in Delusions. 1 vol. London: Ward, Lock, 1902.[1]
- The Antipodians: A Romance, 1904[2][8]
- The Bounty of the River, 1904[8]
- The Byways of Empire, 1904[8]
- The King of Kerisal, 1907.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Author: Mayne Lindsay". At the Circulating Library A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
- ^ a b Kemp, Sandra (1997). Edwardian fiction : an Oxford companion. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-811760-5.
- ^ Wearing, J. P. (1981). The London stage, 1900-1909 : a calendar of plays and players. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-1403-5.
- ^ Firkins, Ina Ten Eyck (1971). Index to plays, 1800-1926. New York: AMS Press. ISBN 978-0-404-02386-7.
- ^ Wearing, J. P. (2013-12-05). The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-9294-1.
- ^ Female journalists of the fin de siècle. New York, NY: Routledge. 2010. ISBN 978-0-415-55949-2.
- ^ "Deaths". The Times. 5 May 1955.
- ^ a b c d british museum general catalogue of printed books. the trustees of the british museum. 1962.