Published in 1901, The History of Sir Richard Calmady is one of the most ambitious and controversial novels by Lucas Malet — the pen name of Mary St. Leger Kingsley. The novel centres on a wealthy English baronet born with a physical disability and traces the psychological and moral consequences of his condition across a sweeping Victorian narrative. Its frank treatment of its subject made it a sensation in its day.
Malet was a respected and commercially successful author in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and this novel represents her most sustained effort. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg to discover a largely forgotten but significant work of Victorian fiction.