Mary Webb (1881-1927), poet, mystic, and lover of nature, spent most of her life in Shropshire, England, 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, Webb died in Hampstead, England.
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A haunting tale of passion set in Shropshire in the 1800s Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild countryside of Shropshire, England, Prudence Sarn is a passionate girl, cursed with a harelip—her “precious bane.” She is cursed for it, too, by th... SEE MORE