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  • Precious Bane

    by Mary Webb ...
    Precious Bane was written by Mary Webb and first published in 1924. Narrated by the central character Prue Sarn, whose life is blighted by having a harelip. Only the weaver, Kester Woodseaves, perceives her inner beauty but Prue cannot believe herself worthy of him. Prue is wrongly accused of murder and only one man can save her and take her away to the happiness she believes she can never possess ... Read more

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    Wonder Of Women - Suicide Stories

    Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

    by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, Amy Levy, Amy Levy, Mary Shelley, Lydia Maria Child, Bithia Mary Croker, Mary Webb, Philippa Forest, Mary Elizabeth Braddon0, Catherine Wells1 ...
    Narrated by Laurel Lefkow2, David Shaw-Parker3, Ghizela rowe4 ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 4 min

    Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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    Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1920's - The English - The Women

    The top ten short stories written in the 1920s by female authors from England

    by Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Alicia Ramsay, Bessie Kyffin-Taylor.wav, Elinor Mordaunt, Helen Simpson, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Webb, Violet Hunt ...
    Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker, Marie-Pierre ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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    Top 10 Short Stories – The 1920’s – The Women, The

    The top ten Short Stories of the 1920's written by female authors

    by Radclyffe Hall, Ellen Glasgow, Dorothy Edwards, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Alicia Ramsay, Elinor Mordaunt, Helen Simpson, Mary Cholmonderly, Mary Webb ...
    Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Eve Karpf ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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  • Precious Bane

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Mary Webb ...
    Mary Webb's Precious Bane is a haunting rural novel set in the border country of Shropshire, where marshland, old speech, folklore, and hard country work shape every life. From the memoir-like voice of Prue Sarn, the story looks back on a half-mythic world of Sarn Mere, where superstition, religion, family discipline, and local custom mingle with daily labor and hidden grief. Prue, judged for her ... Read more

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  • Seven for a Secret

    by Mary Webb ...
    The arrival of Ralph Elmer at the "Mermaid's Rest" disrupts the quiet love between eighteen-year-old farmer's daughter Gillian Lovekin and Robert Rideout, her father's shepherd. ... Read more

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  • Precious Bane

    by Mary Webb ...
    This is the story of us all at Sarn, of Mother and Gideon and me, and Jancis, and Wizard Beguildy, and the two or three other folk that lived in those parts, that I did set out to tell. There were but a few, and maybe always will be, for there’s a discouragement about the place. It may be the water lapping, year in and year out—everywhere you look and listen, water; or the big trees waiting and ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Mary Webb Illustrated

    by Mary Webb ...
    Series Book 4 - Delphi Series Fourteen
    The interwar English novelist and poet Mary Webb is best known for her masterpiece ‘Precious Bane’ and for her lyrical style, conveying a rich and intense impression of her beloved Shropshire countryside home. Though in her lifetime her novels suffered neglect, a reappraisal of her work after her early death has drawn comparisons with the works of Thomas Hardy, sharing a love of nature and a sense ... Read more

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  • Precious Bane

    by Mary Webb ...
    'She has a style of exquisite beauty which yet has both force and restraint, simplicity and subtlety she has fancy and wit, delicious humour and pathos. She sees and knows men aright as no other novelist does. She has, In short, genius' Mr. Edwin Pugh ... Read more

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  • Mary Webb - Precious Bane: 'It was at a love-spinning that I saw Kester first''

    by Mary Webb ...
    Mary Gladys Meredith was born on 25th March 1881 at Leighton Lodge in the village of Leighton, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire.Mary was home-schooled by her father before being sent to a finishing school in Southport in 1895. Her longs walks in the countryside helped her develop a heightened sense of observation and description, of both people and places, which later infused both her poetry and ... Read more

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  • The Book of Shadows Vol 2

    by Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells, Robert W. Chambers, Arthur Machen, Mary Webb, John Buchan, William Fryer Harvey, Masterpiece Everywhere, Hugh Walpole ...
    The deeper you explore the mysterious, the more questions emerge about belief, tradition, and the unseen. Continue your exploration of esoteric literature with The Book of Shadows Vol. 2, a collection credited to various authors and presented under a title associated with occult and modern magical traditions. The world of esoteric writing encompasses a wide range of ideas, from symbolic practices ... Read more

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  • The Book of Shadows Vol 2

    by Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Robert W. Chambers, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Arthur Machen, Mary Webb, John Buchan, William Fryer Harvey, Sir Hugh Walpole ...
    Not every shadow hides a secret—but the ones in this collection just might. Enter a world where eerie mysteries, supernatural encounters, and unforgettable stories await. Discover "The Book of Shadows Vol. 2," a captivating anthology featuring classic tales by renowned authors including Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Robert W. Chambers, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Arthur Machen, Mary Webb, John Buchan, ... Read more

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