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Mary Lovett Cameron

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Mary Lovett Cameron
Born1848
Wavertree, Lancashire, U.K.
DiedApril 20, 1930(1930-04-20) (aged 81–82)
Langport, Somerset, U.K.
Occupation(s)Writer, artist

Mary Lovett Cameron (1848 – 20 April 1930) was a British artist and writer of fiction and travel books, based in Cornwall.

Biography

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Cameron was born in Wavertree, Lancashire, the daughter of Charles Francis Lovett Cameron and Julia Buckley Cameron. Her father was born in Ireland.[1]

Cameron lived in St Ives, Cornwall after 1891,[2] and spent time in Italy.[3] In 1898, she was one of the artists who signed the "Glanville letter", a call for less commercial development along the coast at St Ives.[4] Also in 1898, she was assaulted in her home by a young man; she escaped further harm by locking herself in a pantry, and calling out a window for help.[5] In 1918,[6] she was the first woman elected to the office of librarian of the St. Ives Arts Club.[2] She died on Easter in 1930, in her late seventies, at the Convent of St. Gildas in Langport, Somerset.[7]

Publications

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There were other British writers who used the name "Lovett Cameron" in Mary Lovett Cameron's time.[8] The following works credit her with the full name "Mary Lovett Cameron". Her short stories were published in newspapers in Great Britain,[9] Australia,[10] New Zealand,[11] and North America.[12][13]

Fiction

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  • Twixt Cup and Lip (1874)[14]
  • "Under the Hammer" (1896, serialized)[9]
  • "The Bull-Fighter's Secret" (1896)[12]
  • "Clare's Last Stake" (1899)[15]
  • "Marburg's Secret, or The Three Fountains" (1902)[10]
  • "Renunciation" (1902)[16]
  • "The Nemesis of a Knife" (1902)[17]
  • "An Episode in a Honeymoon" (1903)[18]
  • "Count Manfred's Treachery" (1903)[19]
  • "Tom Kennedy's Chance" (1904)[20]
  • "The Forsaken Hunting Lodge" (1904)[21]
  • "The Love Affairs of Odette" (1920)[13]

Travel

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  • "Dutch Waterways and Flemish Cities" (1895)[22]
  • "In the Bonnie North Countree" (1896)[23]
  • Old Etruria and Modern Tuscany (1909)[24][3]
  • Umbria, Past and Present (1913)[25]
  • The Inquiring Pilgrim's Guide to Assisi (1926)[26]

Scholarship

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  • "The Dragon of La Trinità: an Italian Folk-Tale" (1910)[27]

References

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  1. ^ Bassett, Troy J. (25 December 2023). "Author: Mary Lovett Cameron". At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837—1901. Retrieved 2023-12-27.
  2. ^ a b "Mary Lovett Cameron". Women in Cornwall. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  3. ^ a b "A Literary Excursion". The Los Angeles Times. 1909-11-14. p. 47. Retrieved 2023-12-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "St. Ives & Treloyhan Manor: The Glanville & Hamilton archive". West Penwith Resources. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  5. ^ "St. Ives". Cornrubian and Redruth Times. p. 5. Retrieved December 27, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  6. ^ "Mary Lovett Cameron". Cornwall Artists Index. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  7. ^ "Authoress's Death: Former St. Ives Resident Buried in Somerset". Western Morning News. 30 April 1930. p. 9. Retrieved December 27, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  8. ^ "A Vanished Race". London Evening Standard. 2 November 1909. p. 5. Retrieved December 27, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  9. ^ a b Cameron, Mary Lovett (1896-01-04). "Under the Hammer". The Newcastle Weekly Courant. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-12-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ a b Cameron, Mary Lovett (1902-03-01). "Marburg's Secret, or The Three Fountains". The Australian Town and Country Journal. p. 55. Retrieved 2023-12-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (1902-04-17). "Marburg's Secret". The Lake County Press. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-12-28 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ a b Cameron, Mary Lovett (1896-03-27). "The Bull-Fighter's Secret". Boston Evening Transcript. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-12-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ a b Cameron, Mary Lovett (December 1920). "The Love Affairs of Odette". The Canadian Magazine. 56 (2): 183–187.
  14. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (1874). 'Twixt cup and lip.
  15. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (1899-01-21). "Clare's Last Stake". The Newcastle Weekly Chronicle. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-12-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (1902-10-09). "Renunciation". The Macleay Chronicle. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-12-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (13 November 1902). "The Nemesis of a Knife". The Wiltshire Advertiser. p. 6. Retrieved December 27, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  18. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (12 December 1903). "An Episode in a Honeymoon". Coleshill Chronicle. p. 6. Retrieved December 27, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  19. ^ "Count Manfred's Treachery/Mary Lovett Cameron". Manchester Evening News. 1903-12-30. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-12-27 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (30 April 1904). "Tom Kennedy's Chance". Newcastle Chronicle. p. 2. Retrieved December 27, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  21. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (10 June 1904). "The Forsaken Hunting Lodge". The Weekly Journal. p. 12. Retrieved December 27, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  22. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (15 June 1895). "Dutch Waterways and Flemish Cities". Linlithgowshire Gazette. p. 6. Retrieved December 27, 2023 – via The British Newspaper Archive, via The Wikipedia Library.
  23. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (Christmas 1896). "In the Bonnie North Countree". The English Illustrated Magazine.
  24. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (1909). Old Etruria and Modern Tuscany. Methuen & Company.
  25. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (1913). Umbria, Past and Present. Sidgwick and Jackson.
  26. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (1926). The Inquiring Pilgrim's Guide to Assisi. Methuen.
  27. ^ Cameron, Mary Lovett (1910-09-30). "The Dragon or La Trinità: An Italian Folk-Tale". Folklore. 21 (3): 349–350. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1910.9719944. ISSN 0015-587X.