Violet Fane
Encyclopedia
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
of Mary, Baroness Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (24 February, 1843, Beauport Park
Beauport Park
Beauport Park is a house near Hastings, East Sussex, England. It is located at the western end of the ridge of hills sheltering Hastings from the north and east.-Early history:...
– 13 October 1905, Harrogate
Harrogate
Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England. The town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa waters, RHS Harlow Carr gardens, and Betty's Tea Rooms. From the town one can explore the nearby Yorkshire Dales national park. Harrogate originated in the 17th...
), a British novelist, poet and essayist of Victorian era.
Biography
She was the daughter of Charles James Savile Montgomerie Lamb and Anna Gray from Beauport ParkBeauport Park
Beauport Park is a house near Hastings, East Sussex, England. It is located at the western end of the ridge of hills sheltering Hastings from the north and east.-Early history:...
, and took her pen name from Benjamin Disraeli's novel Vivian Grey
Vivian Grey
Vivian Grey is Benjamin Disraeli's first novel, published by Henry Colburn in 1826. In 1827, a second volume was published. Originally published anonymously, ostensibly by a so-called "man of fashion," part 1 caused a considerable sensation in London society...
(1826). In 1864 she married her first husband, Henry Sydenham Singleton, with whom she had four children. After Singleton's death in 1893, she married (24 January 1894) her second husband, Sir Philip Currie
Philip Currie, 1st Baron Currie
Philip Henry Wodehouse Currie, 1st Baron Currie GCB , known as Sir Philip Currie between 1885 and 1899, was a British diplomat. He was Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1893 to 1898 and Ambassador to Italy from 1898 to 1902.-Background and education:Currie was the son of Raikes Currie, Member...
, later created Baron Currie (1899). Currie was Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1889 to 1893 and then Ambassador to Rome from 1898 to 1903, where Mary lived with him.
- W. H. Mallock dedicated his novel The New RepublicThe New Republic (novel)The New Republic or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House by English author William Hurrell Mallock is a novel first published by Chatto and Windus of London in 1877. The work had its genesis as a serialization...
(1877) to Fane. She can be found as Mrs. Sinclair.
Books
- as Violet Fane:
- From Dawn to Noon, 1872, poetry
- Denzil Place, 1875, poetry (reprinted as Constance's Fate: A Story of Denzil Place)
- The Queen of the Fairies, 1876, poetry
- Anthony Babington, 1877, drama in verse
- Autumn Songs, 1889, poetry
- Under Cross and Crescent, 1896, poetry
- Betwixt two Seas, 1900, poetry
- Sophy, 1881, novel
- Thro' Love and War, 1886, novel
- The Story of Helen Davenant, 1889, novel
- as Mary Currie:
- Are Remarkable People Remarkable Looking, 1904, essay
- The Feast of Kebobs, 1904, autobiographical essay
- translator:
- Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, 1892