Malet, Lucas: The Tall Villa (ghost). v1. 15 Mar 2021
 

In The Tall Villa, Malet constructs a psychologically complex story of a ghostly tortured hero. This spirit, a suicide for unrequited love, restlessly roams the tall villa for a century, finally finding love in the shape of the long-suffering and abandoned wife of another man.

A late Victorian Gothic ghost story, not horrific, which explores some of the issues women faced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Mary St Leger [Kingsley] Harrison (1852-1931), daughter of Charles Kingsley (author of The Water Babies), wrote highly acclaimed fiction from the 1880s through the 1920s under the pseudonym “Lucas Malet.” Some of her novels received even more favorable critical notice in London literary circles than those of her friends Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Mrs. Humphry Ward. The Wages of Sin (1891) and The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) were especially popular.

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Originally published 1920. This book is in the public domain where copyright is “Life+80” or less, and in the USA.
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