Precious Bane

Name: Precious Bane
Author: Mary Webb

by Mary Webb

Novel of rural passion and conflict centered on a disfigured woman

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Mary Webb

Webb was a Shropshire novelist whose passionate, poetic fiction of rural life reached its height in Gone to Earth and Precious Bane. She died in obscurity but was posthumously championed by Stanley Baldwin, which brought her sudden fame.

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