Author: MANUSCRIPT. LEIGHTON (Marie Connor):
Title: Autograph letter signed, addressed to the literary editor Peter Keary (1865-1915), dated 14th May, 1905, from The Red Croft, Gunton Cliff, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Description: 1905 2 leaves, 226 x 178, folded to make 8 pages, 178 x 123, written on seven sides. The entry on Marie Connor Leighton (1869 - 1941), novelist, memoirist, suffragette, in The Feminist Companion to Literature in English (1990), refers to her "erratic brilliance", and quotes her daughter describing her as an "ardent suffragette." The recipient of this letter, Peter Keary, was the chief editor of a magazine called the Royal from 1898 to 1901, though he apparently maintained a relationship with the magazine afterward. The letter closely concerns Leighton's writing and the publication of her writing, and touches on her best-known work, Convict 99, which she co-authored with her husband, the novelist Robert Leighton (1858-1934). The "Harmsworths", mentioned in the letter, were her long-time publishers: "I am always on the point of coming to see you, but something always seems to prevent me. And now we are down here for a week or two and I am writing to ask if you would like one or two occasional short stories from me for the "Royal", or anything else -- I mean, any other of your papers? Short stories are the only form of literary work which I am at present allowed to do for journals not belonging to the Harmsworths...."

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