Francis Brett Young
Young was a popular regional novelist whose Mercian novels depicted the English Midlands with the same sustained attention that Hardy gave to Wessex. Portrait of Clare is his best-known novel, a sweeping romantic saga.
Works
- Portrait of ClareNovel tracing a woman's life and loves across decades
- The Young PhysicianNovel of a young doctor's idealism and compromises
- Mr. and Mrs. PenningtonNovel of middle-aged marriage and domestic transformation
- Far Forest
- My Brother JonathanNovel of a doctor's conscience and spiritual awakening