I find the lifestyle incredibly inspiring, making me want to throw down my book, roll up my sleeves, and get to work. For what is there in earth, or in heaven, if it comes to that, like the knowledge that you’ve found favour in the eyes of him that is your dear acquaintance, and the Maister? It was the British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, a big fan, who started the process of posthumous success when, seven months after her death, he paid tribute to a “neglected genius”. Mary's first published work had been a poem which appeared in the Shrewsbury Chronicle of October 18, 1907, about the Shrewsbury train disaster three days earlier. Gideon Sarn – A few years older than Prue, he inherited both his father's farm and cruel temperament.

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In the person of Prue Sarn are the qualities of comfort, patience, forgiveness, and love; and in the world around her are evil, jealousy, avarice and superstition. Mary was the eldest of six children and her earliest writing consisted of plays and stories to amuse her brothers and sisters. I give easement and rest now to thee, dear man, that ye walk not over the fields nor down the by-ways.

At the “love-spinning” for Gideon and Jancis—a gathering at which local women spin the wool that will be woven into fabric for the young couple—Prue first sees the weaver, Kester Woodseaves. As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations there will be the unveiling of a blue plaque at Mary’s birthplace, Leighton Lodge, now a private family home. The original plans are located at Shropshire Archives which should be invaluable in identifying the original structure.

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They lived for a time in Weston-super-Mare, before moving back to Mary's beloved Shropshire, where they worked as market gardeners until Henry secured a job as a teacher, first at Chester, then at the Priory Grammar School for Boys in Shrewsbury. But Precious Bane points, too, to a world suffused with the love of a God who created daffodowndillies, gillyflowers, and the miracle of a dragonfly emerging from its shroud, and who, at the last, will ensure that we are “brought into His safe rickyard, and thatched over, warm with His everlasting loving-kindness”. She developed an extraordinary perception for minute detail in nature and this is reflected in the richness of her poetry and prose.Mary lived for a while at Roseville, Pontesbury, where she and her husband grew vegetables and flowers and she sold them in Shrewsbury market. From an early age she enjoyed walks in the countryside with her beloved father from whom she inherited her love of nature and the rich folklore, legends and dialects of Shropshire.

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He is a good man, a hard-worker, but his obsession for money, the precious bane, takes all precedence in his life, and as we often see in our own time, the blind pursuit of money often loses us our chances of happiness. In The Book of Strange New Things, a Christian minister, Peter, is employed by a mysterious corporation to travel to a distant planet. It’s a long time since I’ve read Thomas Hardy to whose work, Mary Webb’s Precious Bane is often compared, but the novel only feels Hardyesque insofar as it involves a nineteenth-century agrarian community steeped in superstition and in its abundant lyrical descriptions of nature. There may have been an element of wish fulfilment for Webb who, after contracting Graves’ disease, became very self-conscious about her own appearance.The family moved around Shropshire but their favourite childhood home was The Old Mill, Maesbrook, at Meole Brace. Or they were poor folk that had come, through some dark deed, out of the kindly life of men, and with whom none would trade, whose only food might oftentimes be the bread and wine that had crossed the coffin.