Mary Webb (1881-1927), poet, mystic and lover of nature, spent most of her life in Shropshire, which features in all of her novels. Admiring contemporaries described Webb as a 'strange genius' and 'one of the best living writers'. After a life of illness and near-poverty, Mary Webb died in Hampstead.
Brighter and better than Thomas Hardy . . . a marvellous writer
*Guardian*
Mary Webb need fear no comparison with any writer who has attempted
to capture the soul of nature in words
*John Buchan*
With the publication of Precious Bane, a substantial readership
came to respect Mary Webb's quiet genius; and it is for this
country classic that she has been remembered ever since. When she
died at the age of 46, literature lost a voice that promised to
speak for Shropshire as poignantly as Thomas Hardy had spoken for
Wessex, Emily Bronte for Yorkshire
*New York Times*
[Webb] was a great mystic and a master of both "inscape" and
landscape. Any dull afternoon in London is lifted by being
transported to the Mary Webb country of the Shropshire hills and
the Welsh borderland
*Mail on Sunday*
Mary Webb need fear no comparison with any writer who has attempted
to capture the soul of nature in words
*JOHN BUCHAN*
[Webb] was a great mystic and a master of both "inscape" and
landscape. Any dull afternoon in London is lifted by being
transported to the Mary Webb country of the Shropshire hills and
the Welsh borderland.
*MAIL ON SUNDAY*
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