1922 novel by Mary Webb
Seven for a Secret is a 1922 romance novel by the British writer Mary Webb.[1] She wrote to Thomas Hardy asking if she might dedicate the novel to him, to which he agreed.[2] As with her other novels it takes place in her native Shropshire. The title is taken from the traditional nursery rhyme One for Sorrow.
References
- ^ Stringer & Sutherland p.706
- ^ Radford p.138
Bibliography
- 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.
