Author: Mary Baskin
Author: Mary Baskin (1852–1898)
Alternate Name(s): Carlisle (married name)
Biography: Mary Baskin was born in 1852 in Southampton, the daughter of civil servant Robert Baskin. Her early life cannot be traced. By her twenties, she was a published poet and novelist with the collection Wild Violets (1873) and Only a Life (1874) respectively. She would go on to publish several more works of fiction. Moving to London in the 1880s, she performed readings. Baskin made the newspapers with a case of libel and theft and counter-libel against a clergyman in 1886. The following year she married landowner Herbert Neild Carlisle. She was not living with her husband in the 1891 census and he remarried as a widower in 1898. Her death cannot be traced and is presumed on or before 1898.
References: British Census (1871, 1881, 1891); Buckingham Express (6 March 1886)
Fiction Titles:
- Only a Life: An Autobiographical Story. 1 vol. London: F. E. Longley, 1874.
- Autumn Blossoms. 1 vol. London: F. E. Longley, 1876.
- Into Smooth Waters. 1 vol. London: James Clarke, 1878.
- Esther Douglas and Other Stories. 1 vol. London: Ward and Lock, 1878.
- Released. 1 vol. London: Ward and Lock, 1878.