biography
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Webb, Mary (Gladys)
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née Meredith
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| female
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| lived:
| (1881–1927)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Keighton, Shropshire, WC England, UK. Educated at Southport, she married in 1912, became a market gardener with her husband, and moved to London in 1921. Her early novels met with little success, but Precious Bane (1924) became an instant best seller after it had been praised by the prime minister, Stanley Baldwin. Other works include The Golden Arrow (1916), The House in Dormer Forest (1920), and Seven for a Secret (1922). |
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