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What if the wish to rise meets a world determined to keep you in your place?
In That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day, Richard Dehan explores love, liberty and the wish to move beyond limits. Birth, habit and society frame the central questions: how much room does a person have to choose, and what does freedom ask of them?
Published in 1918, this novel belongs to a world of changing manners, new ideas about freedom and firm expectations of duty. Dehan, the pen name of Clotilde Graves, brings these concerns together in fiction whose fuller, more formal style invites you to slow down and enter its time.
What you’ll discover
- Love beyond private feeling Explore love alongside the social limits that make personal wishes more than a private concern.
- The pull of liberty Follow the book’s concern with independence and the desire to rise beyond imposed boundaries.
- Freedom beside duty Consider the tension between new ideas of freedom and firmly held expectations of duty.
- The image of wings Let the title’s image of flight draw you toward the longing for a less confined life.
- A voice worth revisiting Meet the fiction of Clotilde Graves, who writes under the male pen name Richard Dehan.
Who will love it
You will enjoy this book if you love stories set on the eve of the First World War, with Society dinners, early aeroplanes, spies, and a heroine who learns to believe in something greater than herself.
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- A bride who fears the cradle
- A lunch that puts a title at risk
- A hovering plane over the Bois
- An old priest and a painting of Rachel
- A dinner where a German boasts
- Patrine Saxham chooses the wrong hero
- A surgeon, his wife and their boy
- A bird that flies with a stolen secret
- A nation at war and a girl in motion
- How wings, mothers and prayer hold the story
Who’s who
- Patrine SaxhamA tall, proud, restless young woman who plays at wickedness. She wants love and a purpose, though she does not yet know where to find either.
- Alan SherbrandA young flying instructor and inventor who is anxious to clear his father's name. He wants his hovering invention accepted and Patrine as his wife.
- Margot, Viscountess NorwaterA small, spoiled club girl nicknamed Kittums. She wants her season of pleasure to go on and fears the child she is carrying.
- Franky, Viscount NorwaterA kind, simple Guards officer who adores his wife. He wants a son to keep the family title from his disgraced uncle.
- Count von HerrnungA huge Prussian flying officer who boasts of conquest and calls himself a Superman. He wants women, glory and the coming Day.
- Dr Owen SaxhamA stern Harley Street surgeon who once drank and was redeemed by love. He wants to protect his family and his niece.
- Lynette SaxhamThe doctor's gentle, devout wife. She wants nothing more than her family's safety and the strength to bear what comes.
- Bawne SaxhamThe twelve-year-old Boy Scout son of the Saxhams. He wants to fly, and he tries hard to obey the orders of his Chief.
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Aquello que tiene alas: una novela de actualidad
by Richard Dehan · 1918
A Paris bride fears the cradle while a Prussian pilot toasts The Day before a table of fashionable guests.
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A bride in Paris learns she is going to have a baby, and weeps as if the world had ended. That same day, the city holds a hovering aeroplane, a priest who explains a painting and a German count who boasts of the Day when Britain will fall.
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A bride who fears the cradle
In January 1914, Francis Sherbrand, Viscount Norwater, marries Margot Mountjohn, a rich orphan everyone calls Kittums. Franky is a young Guards subaltern. It is a true love match, though neither knows the other well.
Margot talks like a woman of the world and knows almost nothing of life. Before the wedding, her married friends press little charms on her to keep babies away, and she believes in every one. The memory of her mother frightens her.
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Dehan, Richard. That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/that-which-hath-wings-a-novel-of-the-day.
Dehan, R. (2026). That which hath wings: A novel of the day. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/that-which-hath-wings-a-novel-of-the-day (Original work published 1918)
Dehan, Richard. That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/that-which-hath-wings-a-novel-of-the-day.
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What is That Which Hath Wings about?
It follows English Society from the eve of war, beginning with a frightened young bride and reaching wartime Flanders the following spring. It joins a love story, a spy plot about stolen plans and a young woman's growth in faith.
Who is Patrine Saxham?
Patrine is the tall, bold niece of the surgeon Dr Saxham. She begins as a fashionable girl who plays with danger, then learns to love, to pray and to serve others as the war advances.
What does the title That Which Hath Wings mean?
It draws on a biblical passage placed at the beginning of the novel, in which birds convey spoken words and winged creatures reveal what has happened. Flight and wings recur throughout.
The author
Richard Dehan
1863–1932 · English novelist and playwright
Richard Dehan was the pen name of Clotilde Graves (1863–1932), an Irish novelist and playwright. She was born in Macroom, County Cork, and later lived in London. She wrote plays under her own name and novels as Richard Dehan, including The Dop Doctor (1910) and That Which Hath Wings (1918).
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