English Literature, 20th cent. to the Present: Biographies

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Webb, (Gladys) Mary

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Webb, (Gladys) Mary née Meredith (1881–1927), novelist. Her works include The Golden Arrow (1916), Gone to Earth (1917), and The House in Dormer Forest (1920). They are tales of rustic life, romantic, passionate, morbid, and frequently naïve, written in a fervid prose easily ridiculed by Stella Gibbons in Cold Comfort Farm, but they nevertheless retain a certain emotional power. Stanley Baldwin wrote an introduction (1928) to a reprint of Precious Bane (1924), her most famous novel, praising her lyrical intensity, and her evocation of the Shropshire landscape.

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Mary (Meredith) Webb

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Mary (Meredith) Webb 1881–1927, English novelist. Her native Shropshire is the scene of all her novels, which are somber, passionate, and infused with an intense feeling for the countryside. Although her work was little known in her lifetime, her literary reputation grew after her death. The emotional intensity of such novels as Gone to Earth (1917) and Precious Bane (1924) compensates for their lack of originality in plot and characterization. An anthology of her writings was published in 1940.

Bibliography: See study by D. P. H. Wrenn (1964).

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