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Mary Cholmondeley

Mary Cholmondeley was an English novelist.

The daughter of the vicar at St Luke's Church in the village of Hodnet, Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, where she was born, Cholmondeley spent much of the first thirty years of her life taking care of her sickly mother.

Selected writings

* The Danvers Jewels (1886)

* Sir Charles Danvers (1889)

* Let Loose (1890)

* Diana Tempest (1893)

* Devotee: An Episode in the Life of a Butterfly (1897)

* Red Pottage (1899)

* Prisoners (1906)

* The Lowest Rung (1908)

* Moth and Rust (1912)

* After All (1913)

* Notwithstanding (1913)

* Under One Roof (1917)


“A present of books is always an advantage in the country.”
Mary Cholmondeley
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