Kit and Kitty: a story of west Middlesex is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1890.

[1] This lady and her son Donovan are the villains of the story, and by their machinations poor Kit and Kitty are separated and made miserable.

[2] Poetic justice is amply wreaked in the end on all ill-doers in an accumulation of horrors, including a parricide, a suicide, a leper husband returned to claim his wife, and her collapse from the shock into paralysis and imbecility.

"[1] The Dublin Review reckoned that "Mr. Blackmore's gift of story-telling enables him to silence common-sense with a wave of his magician's wand.

"[4] The Spectator enjoyed the first volume with its suburban idyll, but found the rest of the story to be "melodrama ... of the cheapest kind, with impossible villains, incredible plots, and a final scene of butchery which rivals the close of the last act of Hamlet.