{"id":40484,"date":"2026-06-28T07:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=40484"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:44:58","slug":"the-history-of-sir-richard-calmady-late-victorian-and-early-modernist-women-writers-by-malet-lucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/the-history-of-sir-richard-calmady-late-victorian-and-early-modernist-women-writers-by-malet-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of Sir Richard Calmady (Late Victorian And Early Modernist Women Writers) by Malet Lucas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\r\n\r\nRichard Calmady is born into English aristocracy with a physical disability that becomes the organizing principle of his entire life. It shapes how others see him, how he sees himself, his mother’s suffocating devotion, the erotic possibilities that open and close around him as he moves into adulthood.\n\n\n\n\n\nLucas builds the novel around a triangle of desire. Richard’s cousin is part of it. The lesbian content isn’t isolated or foregrounded\u2014it’s woven into the structure of desire itself, one thread among multiple threads that all pull in different directions.\n\n\n\n\n\nPublished in 1901, *The History of Sir Richard Calmady* was a bestseller. Then it disappeared the way much women’s writing from the period disappeared\u2014lost to the machinery that decided which books mattered and which ones could be forgotten. This Bloomsbury Academic edition restores it, part of a series recovering late Victorian and early Modernist women writers whose work is being read again with fresh attention.\n\n\n\n\n\nLucas writes with the psychological ambition of the late Victorian novel at its best. The prose is dense. The interior lives of characters are mapped with precision. The book demands something from the reader\u2014the willingness to move slowly through complicated psychological terrain, to hold multiple desires and contradictions in mind simultaneously. The effort pays. What emerges is a novel about disability, desire, class, and the ways those forces shape a human life across decades. The writing justifies every sentence it asks you to read.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n
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