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Mary Cecil Hay (1840/1841 – 24 July 1886) was a British novelist of thirteen books of romantic sensation fiction. ==Life== Hay was born in Shrewsbury and this is where her father, a watch maker, died before her mother moved the family to Chiswick. Hay was the youngest of six children and her mother too died early. Hay's novels usually had a common structure. They were often set in Cornwall where Hay used used to visit, but they also had locations near Birmingham and Liverpool. The story is usually set at an upper class residence and also includes urban locations. The lower class heroine finally gets to marry the higher class and elder hero, but there are usually some legal problem over maybe a will and another secondary character comes to an early and unusual death.〔 Hay was from a Protestant background and her novel's support the role of the upper classes and they frequently have a moral sub-plot. Foreigners and members of the nouveaux riche are thought, at best, to be suspicious and are usually bad characters. The novels are noted for their witty and punny dialogue which have been compared to that of the Welsh writer Rhoda Broughton.〔 Hay's writing were initially published as serials in magazines like the Family Herald. and they were eventually published as a collection of short stories or as a three volume novel. Novels like ''The Squires Legacy'' wwere published in sixty different issues of the ''Family Herald'' in 1875 and this was followed by a three volume novel the same year. The following year the novel was published in one volume, but by another different publisher.〔 Her most popular story was ''Old Myddelton's Money'' which was first published in 1875 and it was still in print in 1914.〔 Hay died in East Preston in 1886 after a fifteen year career followed by a long illness. She was buried in Highgate Cemetery.〔Katherine Mullin, ‘Hay, Mary Cecil (1840/41–1886)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 7 Jan 2015 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Cecil Hay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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