Gone to Earth: A Novel of the Hills
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Hazel Woodus lives with her father, a coffin-maker and beekeeper, on a Shropshire hill, keeps a tame fox, and is wanted by two men — a minister and the master of the hunt. Webb wrote Shropshire as she saw it, while Graves' disease disfigured her; she died at forty-six almost unread, and was famous six months later when the Prime Minister praised her in a speech. The fox is not a symbol. Fifty-six plates, from Munch to Corot, gather women in gardens, on bridges, at windows—the same watchful female figure Webb set loose on her hill.
Hazel Woodus lives with her father, a coffin-maker and beekeeper, on a Shropshire hill, keeps a tame fox, and is wanted by two men — a minister and the master of the hunt. Webb wrote Shropshire as she saw it, while Graves' disease disfigured her; she died at forty-six almost unread, and was famou...
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Mary Webb (1881–1927) was an English novelist and poet who lived and worked in Shropshire. Her novel Gone to Earth (1917) is a representative work of her fiction, which draws on the landscape and dialect of the Welsh Marches.
Mary Webb (1881–1927) was an English novelist and poet who lived and worked in Shropshire. Her novel Gone to Earth (1917) is a representative work of her fiction, which draws on the landscape and dialect of the Welsh Marches.
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