The History of Sir Richard Calmady

by Lucas Malet

Overview

Reproduction of the original: The History of Sir Richard Calmady by Lucas Malet

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783752435900
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	08/17/2020
Pages:	632
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.56(d)

About the Author

Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St. Leger Kingsley (1852 - 1931), 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."