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... lives near a good second-hand bookshop and she must have searched through their Virago section. I got: Cousin Rosamund, Precious Bane, Losing Battles and The Beauties and the Furies. The Rebecca West I've read before but the others will all be new to me. I'm reading Cold Comfort Farm ... ... first heard about it, so it was fantastic to discover the lovely hardback when I tore off the paper.
The second book is Precious Bane by Mary Webb, in the proper forest-green VMC covering. This must be one of the earlier books they published - I remember looking at it when I was still at ... Mary Webb The Yellow Wallpaper, Gone to Earth, Precious Bane
:) ... 13
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch
..........and there are still more left un-catalogued. ... had Amazon descriptions but now also have the back cover:
Selected Stories (Sylvia Townsend Warner)
The Sugar House
Precious Bane
Over the Frontier
A Note in Music
Invitation to the Waltz
A Favourite of the Gods
The Misses Mallett
Diary of a Provincial Lady Seven for a Secret by Mary Webb ... has been nearly 12 hours and no one has jumped. So if it is still available and you wouldn't mind, may I please adopt your Precious Bane. I promise to give her a kind and loving home.
Thank you, my friend.
belva
P.S. (They shall be passing in the post.) I have a University of Notre Dame Press edition of Precious Bane that needs a good home. ... Fallada germany
Mary Antin usa - Russia
Nina Berberova - Russia
Ivan Bunin Russia
Anzia Yezierska usa - russia
Mary Webb Britain
Horton Foote Usa
Charlotte Mew Britain
Somerville and Ross Britain
Mani Leib Europe - Usa
Ludmila Ulitskaya Russia
I Peretz Poland - Russ ... Mary Webb ... Young Ladies
The Passion of New Eve
Over the Frontier
The Odd Women
The True Heart
The Constant Nymph
Precious Bane (a photo not a scan, hence slight wonkiness)
Spinster
A Note in Music
Mr. Fortune's Maggot
Elizabeth and her German Garden
The Land of Green Ging ... I've uploaded some covers recently:
Crossriggs
Open the Door!
The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories
Precious Bane
Thank Heaven Fasting
Troy Chimneys
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Zoe
... retirement apartment and "downsizing" her collection. I was only able to find one VMC, a Dial edition of Mary Webb's Precious Bane. But it's something I didn't own and haven't read, so I was satisfied. ... is the obvious connection between Mary Webb and Stella Gibbons...in that Gibbons was consciously parodying Webb's work (Precious Bane) in writing Cold Comfort Farm. ... reads that look good. Anyone read....
More Than It Hurts You by Darin Strauss
Break Neck by Erica Spindler
Precious:A Novel by Sandra Novack
Summer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
???? My first Virago was definitely Precious Bane by Mary Webb. I read it not long after the BBC Masterpiece Theatre presentation appeared in the late 1980s, it was definitely a black Virago, and I was about 15. After that, I actively sought out those black covers (then the green ones, etc.). ... of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield. Or if might not have been any of those....:)
actually I think it might have been Precious Bane by Mary Webb! I loved Precious Bane and I have Gone to Earth sitting on my TBR pile -- hopefully I'll get to it when the semester is over. Mary Webb is lovely, but Morrison is brilliant. I'll admit, Paradise is not her masterpiece, but it does have some really intriguing insights into how closed ... ... Gone to Earth in the mail today having found a used copy via Amazon -- I'm looking forward to reading it as I so enjoyed Precious Bane. ... It was still there!! I'll post it next week.
And they had 8 more green-spined VMCs that came home with me...
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge
Mandoa, Mandoa by Winifred Holtby
The Street by Ann Petry
At the Still Point by Mary Benson
A Compass Er ... I loved Precious Bane. I think Mary Webb is one of those writers who has not received the attention she deserves. As for me, I still searching for Old Lady Esteroy (not a Virago but one janeajones is responsible for my current state of Esteroy booklust) #89/91/92
I read both Precious Bane and Gone to Earth in the late 80's. What both heroines have, which I interpret as magical and mystical, is - as Jane says -a shining goodness, a complete oneness with nature, a 'connection' to something beyond themselves. The girl in Gone to Earth is ... Well I put off going to Italy with Pinocchio to spend a couple of days in Shropshire with Precious Bane. My goal is to travel to both Italy and Japan to see why Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki before I have to go back to work next week. Precious Bane has a fairytale quality, partly evoked by Webb's descriptions of the Shropshire landscape and the dragonflies in Spring, partly by the dialect, and partly by young narrator/protagonist whose shining goodness does not protect her from the sorrows of the world. I finished it last ... >84, 87 Precious Bane is moving up my TBR pile, where it has been for too long! Magical/mystical sounds good right now. ... At Mrs Lippincote's and I own 10 others. Angel is my least favorite because the lead character is so unpleasant.
#84 Precious Bane is indeed almost magical. Webb seems to have tapped into something mystical.
Just finished Women in the Wall but will write about that fully on Christiguc's ... I decided to indulge myself in pure pleasure and am reading Precious Bane by Mary Webb ... -Downes
4. The Squire by Enid Bagnold
5. In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor
6. The Beth Book by Sarah Grand
7. Precious Bane by Mary Webb
8. Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge - finished 1/13
9. A Suppressed Cry by Victoria Glendinning - finished 1/ ... ... as.
From my Virago Secret Santa I received The Collected Short Stories of Jean Rhys and a wonderful 1929 edition of Precious Bane by Mary Webb with an introduction written by Stanley Baldwin.
My brother gave me two Persephones - The Wise Virgins by Leonard Woolf and Tea ... I'll also nudge Gone to Earth (though I haven't read it) , because I am so fond of Precious Bane. ... YOU SO MUCH!!
I can't wait to read The Collected Short Stories of Jean Rhys and the fabulous 1929 edition of Precious Bane. I think this may be the oldest book I own and as a history geek, thinking of who may have read this book over the past 80 years is almost as exciting as the ... Precious Bane landed in my mailbox today. Thank-you aviddiva! aviddiva -- might I please have Precious Bane if no one else has claimed it? I promise to cherish it... I have an extra copy of Precious Bane if anyone is interested. It's a Penguin trade paperback, not a virago, and has a bit of a water stain on the lower right corner, but it's in good shape apart from that. I get a chuckle out of seeing that both Gone to Earth and Precious Bane appear in Ernest Hemingway's library. Ooh wonderful! I love Cold Comfort Farm and even more when I had read Precious Bane !! ... The Book of Candy
Jackie by Josie
Fanny: A Fiction
The Names of the Dead
Precious Bane
7. Maiden Voyages
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Crossing California
Fugitive Pieces
Liars ... ... received today were Family History by Vita Sackville-West; Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison, Liana by Martha Gellhorn, Precious Bane and Gone to Earth both by Mary Webb. I now own a lucky clutch of 13 Virago's, and I think it's time I joined this group! "So few things ever happened at Sarn that we could never forget them."
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
"Where be your sprigs of rosemary and your Prayer Books and your clean handkerchers?"
"Whenever he couldna understand anything, he laughed..."
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
"What's it matter if they enjoy it or not?" Precious Bane arrived today -- Thank you, mrspenny! I was thumbing through it, and some of the descriptive writing is astoundingly evocative -- I'm really looking forward to reading it. Received Precious Bane by Mary Webb and All Passion Spent by V.Sackville-West - kindly sent to me by mrspenny.
Also received today Spinster by Sylvia Ashton-Warner through Amazon. 3> Mrspenny, I can't quite tell if both your duplicate copies of Precious Bane have found new homes, but if one is still on offer I would love to give it space on my shelves. ... that might be of interest because they focus on characters with unusual perspectives and abilities I'd recommend would be Precious Bane and The Vet's Daughter. I second the recommendation for The Brontes Went to Woolworth's as a very fun read, having a somewhat fantastical experiment ...
... those that are already complete):
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
Gone to Earth by Mary Webb
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Frost in May by Antonia White
The Sugar House by Antonia White
The Misses Mallett by E.H. Young
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Soul of Kind ... I have to say Carole Maso, A.S. Byatt, Jane Urquhart and Mary Webb. Nom de plume....Ursula B. Marshart! ... by Elizabeth van Arnim
Selected Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner
One Way of Love by Gamel Woolsey
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
Mr. Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Christopher and Columbus by Elizab ... ... or
That Lady by Kate O'Brien
Devoted Ladies by Molly Keane
And two new ones arrived from Barnes & Noble:
Precious Bane by Mary Webb
Alexander's Bridge by Edith Wharton (this one has a green cover)
Je ne sais pas si la période est la même que celle d'Austen, mais j'avais beaucoup aimé Sarn de Mary Webb. En plus, ça finit bien ! Cold Comfort Farm was a mickey-take of sombre countryside tales like Precious Bane and when I read the latter, I could see the echoes clearly.
Zadie Smith On Beauty was an homage to Howard's End - again, I read that second and there was a whole HEAP of very clever echoes.
Hope ... ... christiguc....EVERY Virago is of notable and endearing worth! My favourite has been Mary Webb with Gone To Earth and Precious Bane. Gone to Earth brought me to tears! I can't believe it took me this long to remember one of my very favorite romances!
Precious Bane is a justly famous English novel by Mary Webb dating from the earlier part of the last century. It's heroine, Prue Sarn, was born during the very early 19th century with a harelip, a physical ...
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