Mary Webb By Gladys Mary Coles

Mary Webb By Gladys Mary Coles

Mary Webb, novelist and poet, is Shropshire's most famous daughter. She passionately loved the Shropshire countryside, which she knew intimately, drawing from it her settings, her characters and the rich descriptive detail of her novels and poems. Most of her forty-six years were spent within its boundaries, and like Emily Brontë and Thomas Hardy, she was unhappy when away from the country of her heart.

Her six novels are all set in South Shropshire , the beautiful Border landscape which still today is unspoilt and has changed relatively little since her time (1881-1927). Mary Webb's fictional Shropshire recalls the Wessex of Hardy's novels, and her locations, like his, are based on real places. She also wrote many poems, nature essays and short stories, all redolent of the Shropshire countryside.

Of her novels, only Precious Bane remains in print.

Weight: 513 grams

Size: 215 X 140 X 10

Colour: N/a

£6.95 inc. VAT

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