Gladys Mary Coles

Standard Name: Coles, Gladys Mary

Connections

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Cultural formation Mary Webb
Mary was shy, intense, and introspective.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Her biographer Gladys Mary Coles says that both her parents came from moderately wealthy middle-class society, each with strong Church of England connections.
Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth, 1978.
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Her parents farmed for pleasure...
Reception Mary Webb
This exemplifies the double-edged nature of MW 's reputation. On the one hand she has become almost synonymous in the public mind with the genre she made famous: the romantic, earthy, rural novel. Her early...
Residence Mary Webb
After another bout of Graves's Disease and depression, MW was told that a change of place would aid her heath. Henry got a teaching job in London, but Mary found the city unbearable. She wrote...
Textual Production Mary Webb
This and her Selected Poems were edited by Gladys Mary Coles .

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Texts

Webb, Mary. Collected Prose and Poems. Editor Coles, Gladys Mary, Wildings, 1977.
Webb, Mary. Selected Poems of Mary Webb. Editor Coles, Gladys Mary, Headland, 1981.
Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth, 1978.