The House in Dormer Forest
 1929 US edition (publ. E. P. Dutton) | |
| Author | Mary Webb |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Regional drama |
| Publisher | Hutchinson (UK) George H. Doran (US) |
Publication date | 1920 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
The House in Dormer Forest is a 1920 romance novel by the British writer Mary Webb.[1] It was part of a wave of regional novels set across Britain, in Webb's case in her native Shropshire.[2] She wrote it while living at her home near Bayston Hill. It was one of several works that inspired the later parody novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.
Synopsis
[edit]The plot follows the lives of the Darke family, now headed by Solomon Darke, who have lived in the now crumbling Dormer House since the Elizabethan Era.
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Baldick, Chris. Literature of the 1920s: Writers Among the Ruins, Volume 3. Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
- Radford, Andrew. The Lost Girls: Demeter-Persephone and the Literary Imagination, 1850-1930. BRILL, 2007.
- Stringer, Jenny & Sutherland, John. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English. Oxford University Press, 1996.
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