Name: Precious Bane
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Author: Webb, Mary
ISBN: 9780268015381

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mary Webb

Publisher

University Of Notre Dame Press

Year

1990

Language

English

Pages

328

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0268015384

ISBN13

9780268015381

Edition No.

Synopsis "Precious Bane "

Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip -- her 'precious bane'. Cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she lives. Prue loves two things: the remote countryside of her birth and, hopelessly, Kester Woodseaves, the weaver. The tale of how Woodseaves gradually discerns Prue's true beauty is set against the tragic drama of Prue's brother, Gideon, a driven man who is out of harmony with the natural world.

Mary Webb

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(Shropshire 1881 - St. Leonards on Sea 1927) was an English novelist and poet. She began writing when she was ten years old, but always ended up burning all her poems. However, once her brother read one and without telling her, he took it to the Shrewsbury Chronicle, which published it anonymously. Mary was amazed at the warm reception it received. From the age of twenty, Mary Webb had developed Graves-Basedow disease, and that suffering, as well as her longing for Shropshire, would inspire her for Precious Bane (1924). Despite winning the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse with this novel, she did not achieve success until after her early death in 1927, when Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin referred to her as "a forgotten genius".

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