"The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance" by Lucas Malet is a late 19th-century story centered on Sir Richard Calmady, and it untangles the threads of love, class, and inherited burdens within a family's grand story. The story starts at Brockhurst, a majestic estate built by Denzil Calmady, where the beauty of the land masks the shadow of a family curse destined to haunt its male heirs, including Sir Richard. Readers meet Richard and Katherine Calmady during their wedding celebration. Katherine thinks about her new role as a wife and her eagerness to become a mother, foreshadowing a connection between their love and the looming dangers of the Calmady family's history.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
By Lucas Malet
In a world of grand estates and hidden curses, a newly married couple must face the dark legacy that threatens their love and future.
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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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