That Which Hath Wings

A Novel of the Day

Reading time: about 13.5 h
Length: 185,644 words · 386 pages
Structure: 74 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language: English
Era: Modern

Margot, Viscountess Norwater — Kittums to her husband Franky — discovers she is pregnant and is terrified: her own mother died in childbirth, and she dreads losing both her looks and her social whirl. In Paris for the June 1914 races, a motorcyclist nearly runs her down in the Bois; he turns out to be Alan Sherbrand Jr., Franky's disgraced cousin. That evening at dinner, a German count startles the table by openly announcing Germany's designs on Britain, months before the war that will make the boast real.

First published in 1918, its story set on the eve of the First World War.

Bibliomancer publishes the 1918 text exactly as Dehan wrote it.

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World War, 1914-1918 — Fiction

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Richard Dehan

1863–1932 · Modern

Richard Dehan was the pen name of Clotilde Graves (1863–1932), born at Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland, who moved to England at nine and trained as a painter in London before turning to the stage. Her tragedy Nitocris opened at Drury Lane in 1887, and by 1896 she had two plays running simultaneously in the West End — the first woman to do so. She later turned to fiction, adopting the Dehan pseudonym because she doubted readers would accept a war novel from a woman; The Dop Doctor (1910), set during the siege of Mafeking, became a bestseller, and she followed it with That Which Hath Wings (1918) and other novels. She died in 1932 at a convent in Middlesex.

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