Rosina Margaret Hopkins Clarke (1873 – 3 May 1955) was a British author who used the pseudonym Mayne Lindsay.

Mayne Lindsay
Born1873 Edit this on Wikidata
London Edit this on Wikidata
Died3 May 1955 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 81–82)
Hindhead Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationNovelist Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Arthur Wellesley Clarke Edit this on Wikidata

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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Author: Mayne Lindsay". At the Circulating Library A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
  2. ^ a b Kemp, Sandra (1997). Edwardian fiction : an Oxford companion. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-811760-5.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Firkins, Ina Ten Eyck (1971). Index to plays, 1800-1926. New York: AMS Press. ISBN 978-0-404-02386-7.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Female journalists of the fin de siècle. New York, NY: Routledge. 2010. ISBN 978-0-415-55949-2.
  7. ^ "Deaths". The Times. 5 May 1955.
  8. ^ a b c d british museum general catalogue of printed books. the trustees of the british museum. 1962.