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Mary Lovett Cameron

This article is about the British writer born in 1848. For the British writer born in 1844, of similar name, see Mrs. Lovett Cameron; for the British traveler and writer of similar name, also born in 1844, see Verney Lovett Cameron. For the Scottish artist born in 1865, see Mary Cameron (painter).

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

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

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.
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