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A riveting storyline of ability and the purchase price it exacts, set in a richly imagined Victorian Great britainCalled the most promising designer of his technology, handsome, humble, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed shoulders with the great luminaries of the Victorian Age group. He grew up across the Medway with Charles Dickens and studied at the Royal Academy Universities under the great and eccentric J. M. W. Turner.Predicated on Dadd's tragic true storyline, Mad Richard uses the young designer as he produces his build, contemplates the nature of fine art and fame - as he watches Dickens get around those tricky waters - and in the end locates himself imprisoned in Bedlam for murder, committed as criminally insane.In 1853, Charlotte Brontë - going to publish her third novel, suffering from unrequited love, and herself wrestling with questions about fine art and artists, school, obsession and romance - sessions Richard at Bedlam and locates an urgent kinship in his feverish head and his haunting work.Masterfully sliding through time and memory, Mad Richard maps the creative temperaments of Charlotte and Richard, weaving their divergent lives as well as their shared anxieties and follies, dreams, and crushing illusions.
