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Lucas Cleeve : ウィキペディア英語版 | Lucas Cleeve Lucas Cleeve was the pseudonym of Adeline Georgiana Isabel Kingscote, ''née'' Wolff (1868–1908) was a novelist born in England, the author of over sixty works including ''The Woman Who Wouldn't'' in 1895. After her marriage to Colonel Howard Kingscote, most of her novels were published under the name Mrs Howard Kingscote. ==Life== Cleeve was the only daughter of Henry Drummond Wolff, a diplomat and Conservative MP. Recorded in ''Who's Who'' as a traveller and linguist, she compiled a book of Indian folklore, ''Tales of the Sun, or, Folklore of Southern India'', and a work entitled ''The English Baby in India and How to Rear it''. However she was best known as a novelist. Her most famous novel was a response to Grant Allen's ''The Woman Who Did''. The first edition of Cleeve's ''The Woman Who Wouldn't'' (1895) sold well but received hostile reviews. She said of this: She died in Château-d'Œx, Switzerland.〔'Memorial Notices', ''The Manchester Guardian'', 17 September 1908.〕
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