Clifford, Mrs. W.K. (1846–1929)
Clifford, Mrs. W.K. (1846–1929)
English playwright, novelist, and children's writer. Name variations: Lucy Lane Clifford. Born Lucy Lane in 1846 in Barbados; died April 21, 1929, in London, England; dau. of John Lane; m. William Kongdon Clifford (mathematics professor and philosopher), April 7, 1875 (died 1879); children: 2 daughters.
The Clifford home was a gathering place for the likes of Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Huxley, Henry James, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Leslie Stephen, Violet Hunt and George Eliot; on death of husband, supplemented income with writing; plays include An Interlude (with W.H. Pollock), A Honeymoon Tragedy, Madeline, A Supreme Moment, The Likeness of the Night, A Long Duel, The Seachlight, The Latch, Hamilton's Second Marriage, A Woman Alone and Two's Company; books include Mrs. Keith's Crime, The Love Letters of a Worldly Woman, The Wild Proxy, A Flash of Summer, Woodside Farm, The Modern Way, Miss Fingal and The House in Marylebone; also wrote children's stories.