The Gateless Barrier (eBook, ePUB) - Malet, Lucas
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The Gateless Barrier (1900), by Lucas Malet (Mary St Leger Kingsley Harrison), is both a love story and a ghost story. The writer Laurence Rivers inherits a family mansion from his ominous cousin Montagu. He discovers a locked “yellow drawing-room”, left intact with its early-nineteenth-century feminine trifles (embroidery, letters, music). The room is haunted by a lovely ghost, Agnes, and Laurence is the reborn version of her original lover. Although Laurence tempts Agnes to return to the world of the living, in the end she vanishes, leaving him possessed by unfulfillable yearning. In this novel it is the ghostly woman who haunts the house of fiction.…mehr

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The Gateless Barrier (1900), by Lucas Malet (Mary St Leger Kingsley Harrison), is both a love story and a ghost story. The writer Laurence Rivers inherits a family mansion from his ominous cousin Montagu. He discovers a locked “yellow drawing-room”, left intact with its early-nineteenth-century feminine trifles (embroidery, letters, music). The room is haunted by a lovely ghost, Agnes, and Laurence is the reborn version of her original lover. Although Laurence tempts Agnes to return to the world of the living, in the end she vanishes, leaving him possessed by unfulfillable yearning. In this novel it is the ghostly woman who haunts the house of fiction.
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Mary St Leger Kingsley, known by her pen name Lucas Malet, was a British novelist born in 1852 in Hampshire, United Kingdom. She was the daughter of the renowned writer Charles Kingsley. Throughout her life, Mary was deeply influenced by her father's literary legacy, and she went on to become a successful writer herself. Malet's works often explored complex social and emotional themes, with notable novels including The Wages of Sin and The History of Sir Richard Calmady, both of which garnered significant popularity during her lifetime. In 1876, she married William Harrison, with whom she had a family. She was well-regarded in the Victorian literary world, contributing to the social and emotional discourse of her time through her stories. Her novels often depicted intricate family dynamics, social expectations, and the evolving roles of women. Lucas Malet's literary career was marked by her ability to blend narrative richness with strong character development. She passed away in 1931 at the age of 79 in Tenby, United Kingdom. Her works remain a testament to the complexity of human nature and the societal pressures that shape it.