Mayne Lindsay
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
London
(aged 81–82)Hindhead
Mayne Lindsay | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 1873 London |
| Died | 3 May 1955 (aged 81–82) Hindhead |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Spouse(s) | Arthur Wellesley Clarke |
Rosina Margaret Hopkins Clarke (1873 – 3 May 1955) was a British author who used the pseudonym Mayne Lindsay.
Rosina Margaret Hopkins was born on 1873 in London, the daughter of David Hopkins, a British consul serving in Africa. In her early life she spent three years in India, where her brother was a judge, and a year on a sheep farm in Australia. She married Sir Arthur Wellesley Clarke CBE, a naval captain, in 1897 and they had two children.[1]
She began publishing stories while a teenager, and her travels provided themes and settings for her fiction. Her The Valley of Sapphires is a collection of stories about India. Her novel Prophet Peter is about a man with the power of second sight who gains a large following.[1][2] Her story "The Little Pale Man" was adapted for the stage by Frederick Fenn as The Nelson Touch (1907).[3][4][5] Of her pseudonym, she said "I have enjoyed the shelter of a pen-name against myself, and I have liked to fancy that by its help 'Mayne Lindsay' might be enabled to do things I was sure the familiar 'I' could never accomplish."[6]
Mayne Lindsay died on 3 May 1955 at a nursing home in Hindhead.[7]