John Law (Margaret Harkness) - much of her production

Margaret Harkness was born in 1861 and used the nom-de-plume "John Law" for all her books. Mr. Sutherland calls the details of her life "tantalisingly obscure". We do know that she was an ardent socialist; a cousin of Beatrice Webb and a friend of Eleanor Marx and Olive Schreiner. She began her literary career with hack work in the British Museum. Engels admired her first novel (A City Girl), and his comments on it are said by some to be a classic instance of early Marxist literary criticism. But how can Marxism have a connection with the Art of literature?

Of the ten books she published I have been able to find only seven. The three descriptions of life in India are at least as interesting as her early novels, so I have included them.

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01) A City Girl (1887)
MHJL01

02) Out of Work (1888)
MHJL02

03) In Darkest London [or Captain Lobe] (1889)
MHJL03

04) A Manchester Shirtmaker: a realistic story of to-day (1890)
MHJL04

05) George Eastmont: Wanderer (1905) - introuvable

06) Glimpses of hidden India (1908)
MHJL06

07) Indian snapshots (1912)
MHJL07

08) Modern Hyderabad (Deccan) (1914)
MHJL08

09) The Horoscope (1915) - introuvable

10) A Curate's Promise (1921) - introuvable