Best known work

• Keynotes, 1893

Other well known work(s)

• Discords, 1894

Genres

• Fiction - Novels
• Fiction - Short Stories
• Plays
• Travel Writing / Translation

Nom de plume

Mary Chavelita Dunne, Mary Clairmont, Mary Golding Bright

Social class

Middle class

Parental background

Father descended from Irish nobility but gambled away much of the family's money.

At publication of best known work

• Age: 34
• Marital status: Married
• Number of children: 0

Physical description

Mary Golding Bright was considered 'very attractive' (May, 129) and a 'brilliant talker', 'small and fragile' with 'strikingly large and luminous eyes' (The Times, 13 Aug 1945) (Alison Golding, ODNB). She has a "slender, not particularly well-developed figure, graceful, pretty hands, and a delightful way of using them when she talks. She is not pretty [...] she has pretty, soft hair, not thick, and though her eyes are not large (and she is so near-sighted that she is never without glasses), they are extremely fascinating" ('George Egerton, the Author of Keynotes' from Current Literature, Vol XVI July, 1894.

Did you know?

Egerton was married three times and had numerous love affairs during her extensive travels across the world.

Additional information

The Yellow Nineties has a biography and selected list of works. Eleanor Fitzsimons discusses Egerton's life and works in the context of C19th society.