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Mary Webb


Born
in Leighton, Shropshire, The United Kingdom
March 25, 1881

Died
October 08, 1927

Genre
Romance, Poetry, Nature



Mary Webb (1881-1927) was an English romantic novelist of the early 20th century, whose novels were set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people which she knew and loved well. Although she was acclaimed by John Buchan and by Rebecca West, who hailed her as a genius, and won the Prix Femina of La Vie Heureuse for Precious Bane (1924), she won little respect from the general public. It was only after her death that the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, earned her posthumous success through his approbation, referring to her as a neglected genius at a Literary Fund dinner in 1928.

Her writing is notable for its descriptions of nature, and of the human heart. She had a deep sympathy for all her characters a ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 6,722 ratings · 1,188 reviews · 92 distinct works • Similar authors
Precious Bane
4.23 avg rating — 4,154 ratings — published 1924 — 295 editions
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Gone to Earth
3.82 avg rating — 875 ratings — published 1917 — 252 editions
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Seven for a Secret
3.90 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1922 — 54 editions
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The Golden Arrow
3.81 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1916 — 54 editions
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The House in Dormer Forest
3.63 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1920 — 119 editions
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Armour Wherein He Trusted
3.90 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1929 — 74 editions
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Poems and the Spring of Joy
4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1942 — 10 editions
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Mr. Tallent's Ghost
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Sarn
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“We are tomorrow's past.”
― Mary Webb
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“He was ever a strong man, which is almost the same, times, as to say a man with little time for kindness. For if you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your pat. So when folk tell me of this great man and that great man, I think to myself, Who was stinted of joy for his glory? How many old folk and children did his coach wheels go over? What bridal lacked his song, and what mourner his tars, that he found time to climb so high?”
― Mary Webb, Precious Bane
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“[...]we are all as full of echoes as a rocky wood--echoes of the past, reflex echoes of the future, and echoes of the soil (these last reverberating through our filmiest dreams, like the sound of thunder in a blossoming orchard).”
― Mary Webb, Gone to Earth
tags: echoes, inspirational
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Polls

August 2016 New School Group Read

 
  44 votes, 25.4%

 
  20 votes, 11.6%

1966, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 176 pages
 
  17 votes, 9.8%

1931, The Waves by Virginia Woolf, 297 pages
 
  16 votes, 9.2%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages
 
  16 votes, 9.2%

 
  14 votes, 8.1%

1963, The Collector by John Fowles, 282 pages
 
  12 votes, 6.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  9 votes, 5.2%

1990, Possession by A.S. Byatt, 555 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.6%

1996, The Beach by Alex Garland, 436 pages
 
  5 votes, 2.9%

1948, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, 320 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1949, The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr., 352 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.3%

1942, The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas, 528 pages
 
  3 votes, 1.7%

1924, Precious Bane by Mary Webb, 328 pages
 
  1 vote, 0.6%

173 total votes
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