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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Mary Lovett Cameron

Author: Mary Lovett Cameron (1848–1930)

Biography: Mary Lovett Cameron was born in 1848 in Wavertree, Lancashire, the daughter of Irish-born Charles Francis Lovett Cameron. She never married and at some time early in her life moved to the coast of Cornwall. Cameron wrote a three-volume novel 'Twixt Cup and Lip (1874) set on the Devon coast. She lived and worked as an artist in St. Ives, Cornwall, where she rented a studio and wrote articles about art. In later years, she wrote three travel books about Italy: Old Etruria and Modern Tuscany (1909), Umbria, Past and Present (1913), and The Inquiring Pilgrim's Guide to Assisi (1926). She died in 1930.

Fiction Titles:

  1. 'Twixt Cup and Lip: A Novel.  3 vol.  London: Samuel Tinsley, 1874.