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Seven for a Secret

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Seven for a Secret
First edition (UK)
AuthorMary Webb
LanguageEnglish
GenreRegional drama
PublisherHutchinson (UK)
George H. Doran (US)
Publication date
1922
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

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

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  1. ^ Stringer & Sutherland p.706
  2. ^ Radford p.138

Bibliography

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  • 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.