Precious Bane: A Shropshire Farm and a Harelipped Girl
Mary Webb
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A Shropshire farm girl born with a hare lip is treated as a witch by the parish while her brother sacrifices everything, including her, to his hunger for land. Mary Webb wrote in the Shropshire dialect and was almost unread until the prime minister praised her at a public dinner six months after she died. Fifty-six plates of farm carts, cattle and riverside meadows, from Constable to Ommeganck, give the rural world Mary Webb wrote about in its own colours.
A Shropshire farm girl born with a hare lip is treated as a witch by the parish while her brother sacrifices everything, including her, to his hunger for land. Mary Webb wrote in the Shropshire dialect and was almost unread until the prime minister praised her at a public dinner six months after ...
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Mary Webb (1881-1927) was an English novelist and poet born in Leighton, Shropshire. She suffered from Graves' disease from her twenties, sold vegetables in Shrewsbury market to survive, and died in poverty at forty-six; six months later Stanley Baldwin praised Precious Bane in a speech and the book became a best seller. Her works include Precious Bane, Gone to Earth, and The Golden Arrow.
Mary Webb (1881-1927) was an English novelist and poet born in Leighton, Shropshire. She suffered from Graves' disease from her twenties, sold vegetables in Shrewsbury market to survive, and died in poverty at forty-six; six months later Stanley Baldwin praised Precious Bane in a speech and the b...
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