VICTORIA LINCOLN was born in 1904 in Fall River, Massachusetts, where she lived until she graduated from the B.M.C. Durfee public high school in 1922. She majored in English at Radcliffe College, married the scion of a well-to-do Southern family, divorced, and later married Victor Lowe, a professor of philosophy whose primary interest was in the work of Alfred North Whitehead. They settled in Baltimore, Maryland. She had one child from her first marriage and two from her second.

Miss Lincoln wrote many essays and short stories for women's magazines and several novels including "February Hill," which portrays a charming, thoroughly unconventional family and was later adapted for the stage by George Abbott as "The Primrose Path" (1939). Other novels included "Charles," a biographical novel about Charles Dickens, and "A Dangerous Innocence," set at the time of the Salem witch trials.

She is best known for "A Private Disgrace:...