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Marie Connor
Born(1867-02-04)4 February 1867
7 York Road, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Died28 January 1941(1941-01-28) (aged 73)
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
NationalityEnglish
Other namesMrs Leighton, Marie Connor Leighton
OccupationAuthor
Years active –
Known forMelodramatic novels
Notable workConvict 99

Marie Connor Leighton (4 February 1867 – 28 January 1941) was a prolific author of serial fiction and melodramatic novels. She married fellow writer Robert Leighton and her most famous work Convict 99 was written jointly with him. However her writing income was far in excess of his.[1]: 20 

Paternity and birth

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While most sources[2][3][4]: 238 [5]: 369  describe Connor as the daughter of James Nenon Alexander Connor (1835 – 21 June 1897)[6] this is not accurate as Marie's mother Elizabeth Ann Treglown[note 1] (c. 1842 – 16 April 1908)[note 2] had a different husband when Connor was born and only married James Nenon Alexander Connor in the first quarter of 1869,[8][9] when Marie Connor was already two years old.

While Elizabeth Anne Treglown was living at Camborne, Cornwall, with her parents, Josiah Henry Harris (c. 1848 – 18 April 1917), a newspaper reporter, visited her and courted her. He was accepted as her fiancé by her family and the couple had been engaged for some time.[10][11] In April 1865, the pair travelled to Paris, and were married there, on 6 April 1865, at the English Episcopal Church, in the presence of the British Ambassador.[12] The marriage had been a surprise to the family, and Harris had announced it by letter[11].

The new couple returned to England, and lived with Elizabeth's parents in Camborne, but after a week, Harris walked out, without saying where he was going. Elizabeth found that he had gone to Bristol and joined him there, but after a time, he again left, this time for Torquay. She joined him in Torquay, but after a time, he again deserted her.[11] By now, her family had moved to Montpelier in Bristol, where Elizabeth gave birth to her daughter at 7 York Road, on 4 February 1867,[13] initially registered as Martha Annie, but later known as Marie.[note 3] Elizabeth registered the birth at Clifton on 13 February 1867. Elizabeth was running a school in Montpelier with her sisters Mary Ann (c. 1851 August 1913)[14]and Ellen (c. 1845 – ) while living with her mother.

Josiah seemed fond of the child, caressed it, and treated it as his own.[13] However, after Josiah had again failed in his promises of support for his wife and child, they entered the Workhouse at Clifton, Bristol, on 30 April 1867.[11] The parish authorities, who were responsible for the Workhouse, sought a warrant to arrest Harris for failing to support his wife. Josiah was arrested at Merthyr in South Wales[13] where he worked for The Merthyr Telegraph.[11] He was tried on 9 May 1867 at Bristol Police Court.[10]

Josiah's defence was that he was not liable for maintenance as the couple were not legally married. There was some discussion of this, and the court held, that until a superior court determined that there was no marriage, Josiah was liable. Josiah met with the parish authorities and came to an agreement to pay maintenance. The case was suspended for a month to ensure that he followed through on this promise. It was understood that proceedings to set aside the marriage would be taken in another court.[11][note 4]

In the first quarter of 1869, Elizabeth married widower James Nenon Connor in Kensington.[8][9]. James was a widower, his first wife Eziza Jones (c. 1828 – May 1864) had died five years earlier. Elizabeth described herself as a widow on the marriage certificate.[16] They had one child themselves, Valentine Alexander Nenon Connor (5 June 1875 – 10 May 1927), who emigrated to Canada and worked an engineer there before dying of stomach cancer and pneumonia in Toronto.[17]

Early life

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Her step-father had sold his commission in the 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot and so lost his pension, to that the family lived a hand to mouth existence, living the high life when in funds and hiding out in a small house in St John's Wood when creditors became too insistent.[1]: 26 

Clare Leighton's biography of Connor states that Connor had a strange upbringing. Neither her mother or father had much interest in her and she was left to her own devices. She copied an entire novel by hand and sent it to a London publisher, who recognised it, and was so puzzled by the childish handwriting that he visited to find out who was responsible.[1]: 194  Her next project was writing names and random from a street directory and sending anonymous letters, warning the recipients that their wives or husbands were being unfaithful with people whose names and addresses she had also picked at random.[1]: 195 

Clare Leighton also related what Connor told her children about her first love affair. When she was ten, Connor fell in love with a window-cleaner, a married father of eight. Their correspondence was discovered and the window cleaner threatened with the law. Connor's parents packed her off to a convent in France where she fell in love with the Mother Superior and the Priest and became a devout Catholic for the rest of her life.[1]: 39 

After returning from France, Connor got stage-struck, falling in love with the actor Wilson Barrett (1846–1904), and writing poems inspired by him. Her parents decided that the only cure was to give her a taste of the stage, so she went on tour with Barrett, chaperoned by one of her maternal aunts. The experience cured her of her love of the theatre.[1]: 195 

Early writing

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Connor published her first novel Beauty's Queen, a three-volume melodrama,[18][19][20] in 1884 when she was 17.[21]The Graphic, after noting that the novel "contains some very remarkable incidents indeed" concluded by saying "The novel is tragical to the highest pitch. All the characters of any consequence are left dead except one little boy, who, it is cordially to be hoped, grows up to meet with more ordinary experiences. The story is altogether ridiculously impossible, and is told in a style of sentimental exaggeration to which no description can do any sort of justice."[22] Sutherland calls this book "An extraordinary mishmash of romantic and religious passion" and said that "it provoked most reviewers to sarcastic drollery", but that "women readers liked it."[5]: 369 

Marriage and children

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Connor quickly followed up with another and had published five novels before her marriage to Robert Leighton (5 June 1858 – 11 May 1934). Born in Scotland but growing up in Liverpool, Leighton moved to London in 1879 and began working for Young Folks magazine as an assistant editor. Leighton was the editor from 1884 to 1885. Connor was a contributor to the magazine. In 1886 Leighton left Little Folks to move to the Bristol Observer, but returned to London in 1887.[23]

Kemp and Mitchell state that the Connor and Leighton eloped to Scotland,[4]: 238  but the UK marriage records show that they got married in Marylebone, London in the first quarter of 1889.[24][25] It is clear that they did elope. Connor's mother traced her to a hotel in Fleet Street, and was only placated when the couple were able to show her their marriage certificate.[26]

The family lived at 'Vallombrosa' at 40 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, London, where they led a chaotic bohemian existence. Every summer they migrated to a turreted seaside cliff-top villa at Lowestoft in Suffolk.[27]

Connor and her husband had four children:

  • Their first child was accidentally smothered in infancy by a nurse.[28]
  • Roland Aubrey Leighton (27 March 1895 – 23 December 1915), a poet who was killed in the First World War. He was Vera Brittain's fiancé and features largely in Testament of Youth, the first instalment of her memoirs. He was his mother's favourite. "He is the only one of my children who is beautiful enough to be worth dressing" her daughter reports her as saying.[1]: 203  His mother's love for him "stopped just short of idolatry".[28] Marie was devastated when Roland was killed and published an anonymous memoir of him as Boy of My Heart in 1916.
  • Clare Leighton[note 5] (12 April 1898 – 4 November 1989), a writer and artist. She wrote several novels as well as the biography of her mother, and was a noted wood engraver. Connor had been dismissive of Clare's looks, ambitions and talents.[30]
  • Evelyn Ivor Robert Leighton (31 May 1901 – 21 October 1969) was destined from boyhood for the Navy.[1]: 193  He joined the navy on 15 January 1915, and remained in the Navy after the Great War, being posted to the Royal Australian Navy for a while, and marrying an English bride while he was there.[31]

Works

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The following is a list, principally drawn from the Jisc Library Hub Discover collated catalogue.[note 6] One title not listed on the Jisc catalogues was found in the list of titles on Holland's blog about Connor.[16] The notes indicate if and where online copies of the texts can be found.

Books by Marie Connor
No Year Title Publisher Pages Notes
1 1884 Beauty's Queen. A romance, etc F. V. White & Co., London 3 vols., 8º [note 7]
2 1885 A morganatic marriage F. V. White & Co., London 3 vols., 8º [note 8]
3 1886 Two Black Pearls. A novel F. V. White & Co., London 190 p., 8º
4 1887 Sweet Magdalen. Only a love story, etc F. V. White & Co., London 3 vols., 8º [note 9]
5 1888 Husband and Wife. A novel, etc F. V. White & Co., London 3 vols., 8º [note 10]
6 1889 The Triumph of Manhood Chapman & Hall, London 3 vols., 8º FRv[note 11]
7 1891 The Lady of Balmerino. A romance of the Grampians, etc Ward Lock & Co, London 3 vol., 8º. [note 12]
8 1893 The Heart's Awakening. A novel Chapman & Hall, London 3 vols., 8º [note 13]
9 1897 The Red-Painted Box. Being the narrative of a curious experience in the life of the Reverend Mark Bessemer John Macqueen, London v. 238 p., 8º [note 14]
10 1898 Convict 99 : a true story of penal servitude Grant Richards, London vi, 316 p., 8 fp ill., 19 cm. [note 15]
11 1898 The harvest of sin James Bowder, London 126 p., 2 ill., 22 cm.
12 1899 Michael Dred, detective: the unravelling of a mystery of twenty years Grant Richards, London 328 p., 8 ill., 8º [note 16]
13 1900 A Napoleon of the press Hodder & Stoughton, London viii, 312 p., 23 cm. [note 17]
14 1901 In the Shadow of Guilt. A novel Grant Richards, London vi. 407 p., 8º [note 18]
15 1903 In God's Good Time Grant Richards, London viii. 510 p., 8º
16 1904 The Amazing Verdict Grant Richards, London 468 p., 8º
17 1906 Sealed Lips Ward Lock & Co, London 368 p., 8º [note 19]
18 1907 Her Ladyship's Silence Cassell's, London vii. 371 p., 8º [note 20]
19 1908 Put Yourself in Her Place Ward Lock & Co, London 347 p., 8º [note 21]
20 1909 “Money.” Ward Lock & Co, London 383 p., 8º
21 1909 An Eye for an Eye Ward Lock & Co, London 378 p., 8º
22 1909 Deep waters Ward Lock & Co, London 414 p., 1 ill., 20 cm.
23 1910 Convict 413 L Ward Lock & Co, London 319 p., 8º
24 1910 Joan Mar, Detective Ward Lock & Co, London 306 p., 8º
25 1910 Justice! Ward Lock & Co, London 303, 16 p., 1 ill., 20 cm.
26 1911 Builders of Ships Ward Lock & Co, London 304 p., 8º
27 1911 Greed Ward Lock & Co, London 320 p., 8º
28 1911 The Bride of Dutton Market Ward Lock & Co, London 320 p., 8º
29 1912 Her marriage lines Ward Lock & Co, London 320 p., col. fs, 8º.
30 1912 The Missing Miss Randolph Ward Lock & Co, London 309 p., 8º
31 1912 The Triangle Ward Lock & Co, London 319 p., 8º
32 1913 Black Silence Ward Lock & Co, London 347 p., 8º
33 1913 Ducks and Drakes Ward Lock & Co, London 320 p., 8º
34 1913 Her convict husband Ward Lock & Co, London 320 p., fs, 8º.
35 1914 Under the Broad Arrow Hodder & Stoughton, London 126 p., 8º [note 22]
36 1914 Geraldine Walton - woman! Ward Lock & Co, London 319 p., fs, 8º.
37 1914 The Silver Stair Ward Lock & Co, London 352 p., 8º
38 1914 The way of sinners Ward Lock & Co, London 320 p., fs, 8º.
39 1915 The Fires of Love Ward Lock & Co, London 320 p., 8º
40 1915 The Gates of Sorrow Ward Lock & Co, London 320 p., 8º
41 1916 A Marked Woman Hodder & Stoughton, London viii, 294 p., 8º
42 1916 Dark peril Hodder & Stoughton, London 285 p., 20 cm.
43 1916 Boy of my heart Hodder & Stoughton, London 221 p. ; [note 23]
44 1916 In the grip of a lie John Long, London 320 p., 20 cm.
45 1916 The Man who knew all John Long, London 319 p., 8º
46 1916 The Mystery of the Three Fingers John Long, London 320 p., 8º
47 1916 The Story of a Great Sin Ward Lock & Co, London 318 p., 8º
48 1916 Human nature Ward Lock & Co, London 315 p., 1 ill., 19 cm.
49 1917 The Baked Bread, A Novel Hodder & Stoughton, London 294 p., 8º
50 1917 The shame of silence John Long, London 318 p., 8º.
51 1917 Every Man has his Price Ward Lock & Co, London 304 p., 8º
52 1917 Vengeance is Mine Ward Lock & Co, London 320 p., 8º [note 24]
53 1918 Verses of a V. A. D E. MacDonald Ltd., London 3 p.l., 9-46 p., 18 cm. [note 25]
54 1918 Hidden Hands George Newnes, London 284 p., 8º
55 1918 Letters of an expectant grandmother Hodder & Stoughton, London xviii, 298, 1 p., 19 cm. [note 26]
56 1918 Guilty or innocent? Ward Lock & Co, London 300 p., fs, 8º.
57 1918 The Duchess Grace Ward Lock & Co, London 303 p., 8º
58 1918 The hand of the unseen : a romance of real life Ward Lock & Co, London 317 p., fs, 8º.
59 1919 Lucile Dare, Detective Ward Lock & Co, London 320 p., 8º
60 1919 Red Gold Ward Lock & Co, London 314 p., 8º
61 1920 The Girl of the Yellow Diamonds C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, London 253 p., 8º
62 1920 The opal heart Ward Lock & Co, London pp. 309. 8º.
63 1920 Convict 100 Ward Lock & Co, London 313 p., (8º)
64 1921 The Stolen Honeymoon Odhams Press, London 178 p., 8º
65 1921 Her fate and his Ward Lock & Co, London 303 p., 8º.
66 1921 The Silent Clue Ward Lock & Co, London 301 p., (8º)
67 1922 Was she worth it? Aldine Publishing Co., London 8º [note 27]
68 1922 For Love or Money Ward Lock & Co, London 303 p., 8º
69 1929 Who Killed Lord Luxmore? etc C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, London 126 p., 8º [note 28]
70 1930 The Torry diamonds mystery Pearson, London [note 29]
71 1933 The Woman Bars the Way Gramol Publications, London 8º [note 30]
72 1936 The Money Spider Mellifont Press, London 160 p., 8º
73 1937 In the Plotter's Web Mellifont Press, London 160 p., 8º
74 1937 The Silence of Dr. Duveen, etc Mellifont Press, London 160 p., 8º

Convict 99

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Connor continued to churn out novels after her marriage, writing four in total with Leighton, including her most successful work Convict 99. A true story of penal servitude. Sutherland describes this as: "a powerful anti-prison tract which became their best-known work. It has a highly sensational plot in which the hero, Laurence Gray, is framed by a rival in love on false charges of embezzlement and murder. Sent to Grimley Prison as Convict 99 on a life sentence, Laurence suffers various indignities before escaping and proving his innocence. The force of the book lies in its graphic and credible depictions of life in jail (particularly the part played by corporal punishment, or the ‘cat’)."[5]: 370 

The story was published first as a serial in Answers one of the publications produced by Alfred Harmsworth (1865–1922),[note 31] for whom both Connor and Leighton worked. It was published by Grant Richards in London. Quoting Grant Richards, the head of that publishing house, Kemp and Mitchell say that Convict 99 was hugely successful as a serial and was used time and again in different papers, but that it never attract as large a public in book form. Kemp and Mill also say that Convict 99 was Connor's greatest success.[4]: 238 

Few of Connor's novels were illustrated, and even those which had any illustration usually only had a front-piece. This was normal for novels intended for adults. However Convict 99, like the first three books jointly written with Leighton, was illustrated.[note 32] The eight illustrations below were made by Stanley L. Wood (1866–1928), and are from the online copy at The British Library.[51]

  • Page 76
    Page 76
  • Page 123
    Page 123
  • Page 124
    Page 124
  • Page 152
    Page 152
  • Page 214
    Page 214
  • Page 232
    Page 232
  • Page 252
    Page 252
  • Page 278
    Page 278

Later life

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Clare Leighton says of her mother that "all men fell in love with her". During her childhood, she relates, there were three men who, with her father, were in love with her mother. Roland called them "Mother's Old Men".[1]: 39 

From 1891 both Connor and Leighton worked for Alfred Harmsworth, he as an editor, and she as a writer of serial fiction. Harmsworth put his editors in their place when she was pregnant, and they were worried about a delayed installment, telling them that Connor would go on just the same even if she were about to give birth to triplets the next day.[1]: 5  Many of Connor's stories were, like Convict 99 serialised first in Harmsworth's Answers. [54]

From 1896 Connor and Leighton were writing almost exclusively for Harmsworth's Daily Mail.[5]: 370  Connor continued to produce "potboiling crime stories" sometimes include female heroines.[4]: 238  The Times said that her stories were "of the crude, rapidly-moving type, that a pre-cinema public read with approval and delight".[3] Connor published her last novel in 1937, but in practical terms she had given up all serious writing in the 1920s.[5]: 370 

Connor died in hospital in Aylsbury, on 28 January 1941.[3] Leighton had died seven years earlier. Mark Bostridge says that Connor "was the archetypal romantic novelist", that she was eccentric and larger than life.[27] Perhaps the best summary comes from the sub-title of her daughter's biography, Connor was an invincible Edwardian.

Notes

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  1. ^ Sometimes written as Treglowan or even Trelawny or Trelawney.
  2. ^ Elizabeth Ann Treglowan's birth date is uncertain as her implied year of birth differs between census returns.[7]
  3. ^ Any
  4. ^ It is not clear is any further action was taken to put aside the marriage, or to determine its legality. The 1911 census return shows that Josiah married again (c.1874). He wrote about the founder of Sunday schools, about the West Country and at least eleven works of fiction, which Kemp and Mitchell call "undistinguished and amateurish".[4]: 176  Josiah took his own life in 1917.[15]
  5. ^ Baptised Clare Marie Veronica Leighton on 26 May 1898,[29] she was also known as Clare Ellaline Hope Leighton and Clare Veronica Hope Leighton
  6. ^ Library Hub Discover is a database collating 161 UK and Irish academic, national & specialist library catalogues.
  7. ^ Online at The British Library in three Volumes: Vol.1,[18] Vol.2,[19] Vol.3.[20]
  8. ^ Online at The British Library in three Volumes: Vol.1,[32] Vol.2,[33] Vol.3.[34]
  9. ^ Online at The British Library in three Volumes: Vol.1,[35] Vol.2,[36] Vol.3.[37]
  10. ^ Online at The British Library in three Volumes: Vol.1,[38] Vol.2,[39] Vol.3.[40]
  11. ^ Online at The British Library in three Volumes: Vol.1,[41] Vol.2,[42] Vol.3.[43]
  12. ^ Online at The British Library in three Volumes: Vol.1,[44] Vol.2,[45] Vol.3.[46]
  13. ^ Online at The British Library in three Volumes: Vol.1,[47] Vol.2,[48] Vol.3[49].
  14. ^ Online at The British Library[50]
  15. ^ Written with Robert Leighton. Eight full page illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Online at The British Library[51] and Hathi Trust.
  16. ^ Not in the Jisc catalogues. Written with Robert Leighton. Said to be the first story in which the detective turns out to be the murderer.[52] Eight Illustrations.
  17. ^ A novel featuring Lord Northcliffe (1865–1922) for whom Connor and her Husband did most of their work.[4]: 238 
  18. ^ Written with Robert Leighton. With illustrations by F. C. Luckhurst. Reissued as a Daily Mail sixpenny novel. The British Library Catalogue entry suggests that the sixpenny novel may have been illustrated by G. H. Evison.
  19. ^ With illustrations by Harold Piffard
  20. ^ With four illustrations.
  21. ^ Illustrated
  22. ^ Hodder & Stoughton's famous sixpenny novels No. 378
  23. ^ Non-fiction. Published anonymously. Online at Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive
  24. ^ Online at Hathi Trust[53]
  25. ^ Written by Vera Brittain, with dedication by Connor. Online at Project Gutenberg.
  26. ^ Non-fiction. Published anonymously.
  27. ^ Mascot Novels. no. 183.
  28. ^ Written with Robert Leighton.
  29. ^ Pearson's 6d novels
  30. ^ Adelphi Novels. no. 27.
  31. ^ Later better known as Lord Northcliffe.
  32. ^ As a writer of juvenile fiction, Robert Leighton's work was usually illustrated.

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  53. ^ Conner, Marie (1917). Vengeance is mine. Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. hdl:2027/nyp.33433112047539. Retrieved 6 August 2020 – via The Hathi Trust (access may be limited outside the United States).
  54. ^ Lofts, William Oliver Guillemont (1970). "Leighton, Marie Connor". The Men Behind Boy's Fiction. London: Howard Baker. p. 221. ISBN 0093047703. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
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