Fiction · 1901
The History of Sir Richard Calmady
A Romance
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Contents
- Note
- Book I — The Clown
- Chapter I — Acquainting the Reader with a Fair Domain and the Maker Thereof
- Chapter II
- Chapter III — Touching Matters Clerical and Controversial
- Chapter IV — Raising Problems Which It Is the Purpose of This History to Resolve
- Chapter V — In Which Julius March Beholds the Vision of the New Life
- Chapter VI — Accident or Destiny, According to Your Humour
- Chapter VII — Mrs. William Ormiston Sacrifices a Wine-Glass to Fate
- Chapter VIII — Enter a Child of Promise
- Chapter IX — In Which Katherine Calmady Looks on Her Son
- Chapter X — The Birds of the Air Take Their Breakfast
- Book II — The Breaking of Dreams
- Chapter I — Recording Some Aspects of a Small Pilgrim’s Progress
- Chapter II — In Which Our Hero Improves His Acquaintance with Many Things—Himself Included
- Chapter III — Concerning That Which, Thank God, Happens Almost Every Day
- Chapter IV — Which Smells Very Vilely of the Stable
- Chapter V — In Which Dickie Is Introduced to a Little Dancer with Blush-Roses in Her Hat
- Chapter VI — Dealing with a Physician of the Body and a Physician of the Soul
- Chapter VII — An Attempt to Make the Best of It
- Chapter VIII — Telling, Incidentally, of a Broken-Down Postboy and a Country Fair
- Book III — La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Chapter I — In Which Our Hero’s World Grows Sensibly Wider
- Chapter II — Telling How Dickie’s Soul Was Somewhat Sick, and How He Met Fair Women on the Confines of a Wood
- Chapter III — In Which Richard Confirms One Judgment and Reverses Another
- Chapter IV — Julius March Bears Testimony
- Chapter V — Telling How Queen Mary’s Crystal Ball Came to Fall on the Gallery Floor
- Chapter VI — In Which Dickie Tries to Ride Away from His Own Shadow, with Such Success as Might Have Been Anticipated
- Chapter VII — Wherein the Reader Is Courteously Invited to Improve His Acquaintance with Certain Persons of Quality
- Chapter VIII — Richard Puts His Hand to a Plough from Which There Is No Turning Back
- Chapter IX — Which Touches Incidentally on Matters of Finance
- Chapter X — Mr. Ludovic Quayle Among the Prophets
- Chapter XI — Containing Samples Both of Earthly and Heavenly Love
- Book IV — A Slip Betwixt Cup and Lip
- Chapter I — Lady Louisa Barking Traces the Finger of Providence
- Chapter II — Telling How Vanity Fair Made Acquaintance with Richard Calmady
- Chapter III — In Which Katherine Tries to Nail Up the Weatherglass to Set Fair
- Chapter IV — A Lesson Upon the Eleventh Commandment—“Parents Obey Your Children”
- Chapter V — Iphigenia
- Chapter VI — In Which Honoria St. Quentin Takes the Field
- Chapter VII — Recording the Astonishing Valour Displayed by a Certain Small Mouse in a Corner
- Chapter VIII — A Manifestation of the Spirit
- Chapter IX — In Which Dickie Shakes Hands with the Devil
- Book V — Rake’s Progress
- Chapter I — In Which the Reader Is Courteously Entreated to Grow Older by the Space of Some Four Years, and to Sail Southward Ho! Away
- Chapter II — Wherein Time Is Discovered to Have Worked Changes
- Chapter III — Helen de Vallorbes Apprehends Vexatious Complications
- Chapter IV — “Mater Admirabilis”
- Chapter V — Exit Camp
- Chapter VI — In Which M. Paul Destournelle Has the Bad Taste to Threaten to Upset the Apple-Cart
- Chapter VII — Splendide Mendax
- Chapter VIII — In Which Helen de Vallorbes Learns Her Rival’s Name
- Chapter IX — Concerning That Daughter of Cupid and Psyche Whom Men Call Voluptas
- Chapter X — The Abomination of Desolation
- Chapter XI
- Book VI — The New Heaven and the New Earth
- Chapter I — In Which Miss St. Quentin Bears Witness to the Faith That Is in Her
- Chapter II — Telling How, Once Again, Katherine Calmady Looked on Her Son
- Chapter III — Concerning a Spirit in Prison
- Chapter IV — Dealing with Matters of Hearsay and Matters of Sport
- Chapter V — Telling How Dickie Came to Untie a Certain Tag of Rusty, Black Ribbon
- Chapter VI — A Litany of the Sacred Heart
- Chapter VII — Wherein Two Enemies Are Seen to Cry Quits
- Chapter VIII — Concerning the Brotherhood Founded by Richard Calmady, and Other Matters of Some Interest
- Chapter IX — Telling How Ludovic Quayle and Honoria St. Quentin Watched the Trout Rise in the Long Water
- Chapter X — Concerning a Day of Honest Warfare and a Sunset Harbinger Not of the Night but of the Dawn
- Chapter XI — In Which Richard Calmady Bids the Long-Suffering Reader Farewell
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About the author
1852–1931 · Victorian
Lucas Malet (1852–1931), pen name of Mary St Leger Kingsley Harrison, was born in Eversley, Hampshire, the daughter of the novelist and clergyman Charles Kingsley. She trained as a painter at the Slade School before marrying her father's curate, William Harrison, in 1876, in a marriage that proved unhappy and childless. Writing under her pseudonym, she published her first novel, Mrs. Lorimer, in 1882, followed by The Wages of Sin (1891) and her most celebrated and controversial book, The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901), whose disabled protagonist scandalized reviewers. She converted to Roman Catholicism in 1902 and died in penury at a friend's home in Wales.
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