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The Sea Lady
''The Sea Lady'' is a fantasy novel written by H. G. Wells that has some of the aspects of a fable. It was serialized from July to December 1901 in ''Pearson's Magazine'' before being published as a volume by Methuen. The inspiration for the novel was Wells's glimpse of May Nisbet, the daughter of the ''Times'' drama critic, in a bathing suit, when she came to visit at Sandgate, Wells having agreed to pay her school fees after her father's death.〔Michael Sherborne, ''H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life'' (Peter Owen, 2010), p. 145.〕
== Plot ==
The intricately narrated story involves a mermaid who comes ashore on the southern coast of England in 1899. Feigning a desire to become part of genteel society, the mermaid's real design is to seduce Chatteris, a man she saw "some years ago" in "the South Seas—near Tonga," who has taken her fancy.〔H.G. Wells, ''The Sea Lady'', Chap. 6, § II.〕 This she reveals in a conversation with the narrator's second cousin Melville, a friend of the family that adopts Miss Waters. As a supernatural being she is unimpressed with the fact that Chatteris is engaged to a Miss Glendower and is trying to make amends for his wastrel youth by entering politics. Chatteris is unable to resist the mermaid's alluring charms, though succumbing means his death.
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