"Deadham Hard: A Romance" by Lucas Malet is a story set in England during the late 1700s and early 1800s, about a man named Thomas Clarkson Verity who wants a fresh start after the French Revolution. He buys a house called Deadham Hard hoping to find peace and fix it up, leaving behind the chaos of his past, but his simple desire becomes intertwined with family secrets, hidden connections, and a young man headed to India, creating a web of relationships and struggles that test his resolve.
Deadham Hard: A Romance
By Lucas Malet
A disillusioned man seeks to rebuild his life by restoring a troubled estate, only to find himself entangled in a complex web of family secrets and budding romances.
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2004-06-01
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About the AuthorLucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley, a Victorian novelist. Of her novels, The Wages of Sin (1891) and The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) were especially popular. Malet scholar Talia Schaffer notes that she was "widely regarded as one of the premier writers of fiction in the English-speaking world" at the height of her career, but her reputation declined by the end of her life and today she is rarely read or studied. At the height of her popularity she was "compared favorably to Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, with sales rivaling Rudyard Kipling." Malet's fin de siecle novels offer "detailed, sensitive investigations of the psychology of masochism, perverse desires, unconventional gender roles, and the body."
Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley, a Victorian novelist. Of her novels, The Wages of Sin (1891) and The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) were especially popular. Malet scholar Talia Schaffer notes that she was "widely regarded as one of the premier writers of fiction in the English-speaking world" at the height of her career, but her reputation declined by the end of her life and today she is rarely read or studied. At the height of her popularity she was "compared favorably to Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, with sales rivaling Rudyard Kipling." Malet's fin de siecle novels offer "detailed, sensitive investigations of the psychology of masochism, perverse desires, unconventional gender roles, and the body."
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