Lady Frederick

Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original hardcover edition for enjoyable reading.

Orphaned by the age of 10 in France, brought up by starchy strangers in Kent (where he acquired a stammer), the diminutive Maugham craved acceptance. He acquired it through his pen. Liza of Lambeth, his first novel, was sparked by his experience as a medical student at St Thomas’s hospital, but he rose to fame through his work for the stage. In 1907, after 17 rejections, Maugham’s play Lady Frederick wa...