Gabrielle Vallings

LM (together with her niece ) became a convert to Roman Catholicism: a remarkable rejection of the life's work of her father , who was not only an Anglican but a militant anti-Catholic.

A few years after her husband's death LM adopted her second cousin Gabrielle Vallings , a singer turned novelist, as her daughter. Vallings remained her companion for the rest of her life and inherited from...

Her friendship with Vallings was the most satisfying emotional relationship of Malet's life. A niece of Vallings later believed that the older woman had persuaded the younger one not to marry.

The Private Life of Mr Justice Syme, the last novel by LM , was posthumously published, completed after her death by Gabrielle Vallings .

In Switzerland during the 1920s, Gabrielle Vallings worked with dramatist Louis Napoleon Parker on a theatrical adaptation, for production in New York, of The History of Sir Richard Calmady, but this did not reach...

She spent much of her time, however, travelling abroad with Gabrielle Vallings , particularly in France. She visited the USA towards the end of the nineteenth century, and thereafter maintained close professional ties with...