Selected Bibliography of Writings by and about Mary Webb

The Golden Arrow XE “The Golden Arrow” \i . London: Constable & Company Ltd. XE “Constable & Company Ltd.” , 1916. Light tan cloth, pink dust jacket. Trial binding: blue cloth.

Gone to Earth XE “Gone to Earth” . London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1917. Black-stamped red cloth, tan dust jacket.

Gone to Earth XE “Gone to Earth” . New York: E. P. Dutton XE “E. P. Dutton” & Co., 1917. First American edition, red-stamped brown cloth.

The Spring of Joy XE “The Spring of Joy” : A Little Book of Healing. London and Toronto: J. M. Dent XE “J. M. Dent” & Sons Ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1917. Green cloth.

The House in Dormer Forest XE “The House in Dormer Forest” . London: Hutchinson & Co., 1920. Gold-stamped green cloth; 2nd binding state: black-stamped red cloth; 3rd binding state: blind-stamped green cloth; 4th binding state: blind-stamped ochre cloth.

The House in Dormer Forest XE “The House in Dormer Forest” . New York: George H. Doran Company, 1921. First American edition, black-stamped red cloth with tan dust jacket.

Seven for a Secret. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1922. Black-stamped olive cloth, illustrated dust jacket.

Seven for a Secret. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. First American edition, blue-stamped light blue cloth, illustrated dust jacket.

Precious Bane XE “Precious Bane” . London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1924. Gold-stamped green cloth, tan dust jacket.

Poems and The Spring of Joy XE “Poems and The Spring of Joy” . London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. Volume five of the seven-volume uniform Collected Works of Mary Webb. With an introduction by Walter de la Mare XE “Walter de la Mare” . Gold-stamped green cloth, tan dust jacket.

Poems and The Spring of Joy XE “Poems and The Spring of Joy” . New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1929. Volume five of the seven-volume uniform Collected Works of Mary Webb. With an introduction by Walter de la Mare XE “Walter de la Mare” . First American edition, quarter orange cloth over paper boards.

Armour Wherein He Trusted: A Novel and Some Stories. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. Volume seven of the seven-volume uniform Collected Works of Mary Webb. With an introduction by Martin Armstrong XE “Martin Armstrong” . Gold-stamped green cloth, tan dust jacket.

Armour Wherein He Trusted: A Novel and Some Stories. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1929. Volume seven of the seven-volume uniform Collected Works of Mary Webb. With an introduction by Martin Armstrong XE “Martin Armstrong” . First American edition, gold-stamped orange cloth, illustrated dust jacket.

The Chinese Lion. London: Bertram Rota, 1937. Gold-stamped quarter red cloth over batik patterned boards, in green slipcase. Limited edition of 350 copies.

A Mary Webb Anthology. Henry Webb, ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. Gold-stamped blue cloth, black floral dust jacket.

A Mary Webb Anthology. Henry Webb, ed. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1940. First American edition, gold-stamped quarter red cloth over green cloth.

Fifty-One Poems: Hitherto Unpublished in Book Form. London: Jonathan Cape, 1946. Gold-stamped coarse turquoise cloth, tan dust jacket.

Fifty-One Poems: Hitherto Unpublished in Book Form. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. [n.d., but 1946]. First American edition, gold-stamped fine turquoise cloth, tan dust jacket.

The Essential Mary Webb. Martin Armstrong, ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1949. Gold-stamped brown cloth, turquoise dust jacket.

Mary Webb: Collected Prose and Poems. Gladys Mary Coles, ed. Shrewsbury: Wildings, 1977. Gold-stamped green cloth, gold dust jacket.

Selected Poems of Mary Webb: Collected Prose and Poems. Gladys Mary Coles, ed. Wirral: Headland, 1981. Pictorial wrappers.

1923. Walter De la Mare, ed. Come Hither. London: Constable & Co. Contains the three poems “Green Rain,” “The Water Ousel” and “Market Day,” p. 10, p. 106, and pp. 141–142.

1923. Ernest Rhys and C. A. Dawson-Scott, eds. Thirty and One Stories by Thirty and One Authors. London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd. Contains “Blessed are the Meek,” pp. 444–453.

1923. Ernest Rhys and C. A. Dawson-Scott, eds. 31 Stories by Thirty and One Authors. New York: D. Appleton and Company. Contains “Blessed are the Meek,” pp. 364–372.

1924. Edward O’Brien and John Cournos, eds. Best Short Stories of 1923. London: Jonathan Cape. Contains “Blessed are the Meek,” pp. 316–322.

1925. A. St. John Adcock, ed. The Bookman Treasury of Living Poets. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. Contains the two poems “Foxgloves” and “An Old Woman,” pp. 458–460.

[1926.] Lady Cynthia Asquith, ed. The Treasure Ship. London: S. W. Partridge & Co. Contains the short story “A Marriage has been Arranged, A Fairy Tale,” pp. 175–185.

[1926.] Lady Cynthia Asquith, ed. The Treasure Ship. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. First American edition, contains the short story “A Marriage has been Arranged, A Fairy Tale,” pp. 175–185.

1926. Lady Cynthia Asquith, ed. The Ghost Book. London: Hutchinson & Co. Contains the short story “Mr. Tallent’s Ghost,” pp. 290–306.

1927. Lady Cynthia Asquith, ed. The Ghost Book. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. First American edition, contains the short story “Mr. Tallent’s Ghost,” pp. 290–306.

1927. Lady Cynthia Asquith, ed. Sails of Gold. London: Jarrolds Publishers. Contains the poem “The Secret Joy” and the short story “The Cuckoo Clock,” pp. 53-54 and 93–105.

1927. Lady Cynthia Asquith, ed. Sails of Gold. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. First American edition, contains the poem “The Secret Joy” and the short story “The Cuckoo Clock,” pp. 53-54 and 93–105.

[1928.] Lady Cynthia Asquith, ed. The Treasure Cave. London: Jarrolds Publishers. Contains the two poems “The Yellow Hammer” and “Fairy Led,” pp. 62–65.

1928. Lady Cynthia Asquith, ed. The Treasure Cave. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. First American edition, contains the two poems “The Yellow Hammer” and “Fairy Led,” pp. 62–65.

1934. [Dorothy M. Tomlinson, ed.] A Century of Creepy Stories. London: Hutchinson & Co. Contains “Mr. Tallent’s Ghost.”

1947. Ellery Sedgwick, ed. Atlantic Harvest: Memoirs of the Atlantic. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Contains the short story “The Prize,” pp. 375–381.

1993. Johnny Coppin, ed. Between the Severn and the Wye: Poems of the Border Counties of England and Wales. Gloucestershire: The Windrush Press. Contains the two poems “The Mountain Tree” and “Hill Pastures,” pp. 18 and 34.

2003. Jack Adrian, ed. The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2003: Ghosts at ‘The Cornhill’ 1931–1939. Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press. Contains the short story “The Sword,” pp. 35–42, (previously published in the Cornhill Magazine, April 1934).

Signed Mary Webb (Mrs. H. B. L. Webb), Mary Webb, or Mrs. Mary Webb unless otherwise noted.
[Anonymous]. “Railway Accident Shrewsbury,” The Shrewsbury Chronicle, October 18, 1907, p. 2. Poem.

Lady Day [Gladys Mary Meredith]. “A Cedar Rose,” Country Life, July 10, 1909, pp. 47–48. Short story.

Gladys Mary Meredith. “The Difference,” The Sphere, May 6, 1911. Poem.

Gladys Mary Meredith. “Very Early. A Poem,” The Vineyard, March 1912, p. 360. Poem.

Mary-Meredith Webb. “The Wild Rose. A Poem,” The Vineyard, June 1913, p. 527. Poem.

Mary-Meredith Webb. “My Father’s Path. A Poem,” The Vineyard, August 1913, p. 663. Poem.

“The Vagrant,” The English Review, January 1915, pp. 134–135. Poem.

“An Old Woman,” The English Review, October 1915. Poem.

Unattributed book reviews for The Liverpool Post, 1916. [Cited by Caradoc Evans, The Colophon, Winter 1939.]

“The Ancient Gods,” The Chapbook, vol. 2, no. 7 (January 1920), pp. 19–20. Poem.

“The Core of Poetry,” The English Review, vol. 30 (February 1920), pp. 142–144. Essay.

“The Lost Orchard,” The Sunday Pictorial, April 25, 1920. Poem.

“When the Thorn Blows,” The English Review, November 1920, p. 392. Poem.

“Caer Cariad,” The Bookman (New York), February 1921, pp. 487–491. Short story.

“Anne’s Book,” The Nation, July 9, 1921. Poem.

“The Water Ousel,” The Nation and the Athenaeum, vol. 29 (July 30, 1921), p. 648. Poem.

“Anne’s Book,” The Living Age, October 1, 1921. Poem.

“Praise,” The Sunday Pictorial, November 20, 1921. Poem.

“Fruits of the Earth,” The Nation, November 26, 1921. Essay.

“The Watcher,” The Spectator, November 1921. Poem.

“The Name Tree,” The English Review, December 1921. Short story.

“Blessed are the Meek,” The English Review, September 1922, pp. 210–216. Short story.

“Roots,” The Spectator, November 4, 1922. Book review.

“Birds, Beasts and Trees,” The Spectator, December 2, 1922, pp. 812–814. Book review.

“The Watcher,” The Living Age, December 4, 1922. Poem.

“Our Birds, Their Haunts and Nests,” The Spectator, January 27, 1923, p. 152. Book review.

“Green Rain,” The Spectator, March 24, 1923. Poem.

“Birds, Beasts and Flowers,” The Spectator, March 24, 1923, p. 488. Book review.

“A Dream of Uriconium: The Return of the Romans,” The Shrewsbury Chronicle, March 30, 1923, p. 4. Prose story.

“Shrewsbury’s Abbey Fair,” The Shrewsbury Chronicle, April 6, 1923, p. 6. Prose story.

“Green Rain,” The Living Age, May 26, 1923. Poem.

“Wild Life in Many Lands,” The Spectator, August 11, 1923, pp. 194–195. Book review.

“Sense and Sensibility Out of Doors,” The Spectator, October 6, 1923, p. 465. Book review.

“When the Pie was Opened,” The Spectator, December 1, 1923, p. 856. Book review.

“Three Pleasant Books,” The Bookman (London), vol. 65, no. 387 (December 1923), p. 152. Book review of Grey Wethers by Vita Sackville West, Old Days in Country Places by two authors, and Why They Married by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes.

“Natural History,” The Spectator, December 8, 1923, p. 910. Book review.

“Novels of Country Life,” The Spectator, December 15, 1923. Book review.

“Quite Wild Animals,” The Spectator, December 22, 1923, p. 1002. Book review.

“Novels of Country Life,” The Spectator, December 29, 1923. Book review.

“Viroconium,” The English Review, January 1924. Poem. [Cited by Coles, Mary Webb (1990) p. 125.]

“Novels of Country Life,” The Spectator, January 26, 1924. Book review.

“Novels of Country Life,” The Spectator, February 2, 1924. Book review.

“The Honey Bee,” The Spectator, February 8, 1924, pp. 207–208. Book review.

“The Prize,” The Atlantic Monthly, April 1924, pp. 468–71. Short story.

“Glimpses of Old Shropshire,” Transactions of the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club, vol. 7, no. 3 (June 1924), pp. 87–93. Prose story.

“Delicate Savagery,” The Bookman (London), vol. 66, no. 395 (August 1924), pp. 278–279. Book review of Ghosts in Daylight by Oliver Onions and The Play Box by Mrs. Henry Dudeney.

“Owd Blossom,” Hutchinson’s Magazine. Short Story. [Cited in Armour Wherein He Trusted: A Novel and Some Stories, 1929, p. 9.]

“A Pedlar of Leaves,” The Daily News (London), October 30, 1924. Prose story. [Cited in A Mary Webb Anthology, p. 251.]

“The Young Man Merciful,” The Bookman (London), vol. 67, no. 399 (December 1924), pp. 185–186. Book review of The Old Ladies by Hugh Walpole.

“New Year Customs,” T. P. and Cassell’s Weekly, December 27, 1924, p. 387. Book review.

“In Memory of Charles Dickens,” The Dickensian, vol. 21, no. 1 (January 1925), p. 12. Poem.

“The Authoress in Fiction,” The Bookman (London), vol. 67, no. 399 (January 1925), pp. 230–231. Book review of Laura: A Cautionary Story by Ethel Sidgwick, The Colour of Youth by V. H. Friedlaender, and Justice Walk by Constance Smedley.

“Dabbling in the Dew,” The Spectator, March 21, 1925, pp. 471–472. Book review.

“Unpleasant Fiction,” The Bookman (London), vol. 68, no. 403 (April 1925), pp. 6–15. Symposium: A range of authors are asked to give their views on current day “sex novels;” Mary Webb’s comments are on p. 12.

“Studies in Atmosphere,” The Bookman (London), vol. 68, no. 403 (April 1925), pp. 32–33. Book review of The Romantic Tradition by Beatrice Kean Seymour and Soames Green by M. R. Larminie.

“A Yellow Sanded Grove,” The Bookman (London), vol. 68, no. 404 (May 1925), pp. 124–125. Book review of The Goat and Compasses by Martin Armstrong and The Twelve Saints by Ruth Manning-Saunders.

“Morton Luce,” The Bookman (London), vol. 68, no. 405 (June 1925), pp. 32–33. Bookman Gallery book review of The Sonnets of Victorian Morton Luce.

“The Wayfaring Tree,” The Spectator, June 27, 1925, p. 1052. Book review.

“Hark How the Birds Do Sing,” T. P. and Cassell’s Weekly, June 27, 1925, p. 324. Book review.

“Over the Hills and Far Away,” The Road, A Quarterly Review, vol. 4, no. 22 (July 1925), pp. 461–463. Short story.

“The Soul of Australia,” The Bookman (London), vol. 69, no. 409 (October 1925), pp. 44–45. Book review of Daimon by E. L. Grant Watson.

“Helen Prothero Lewis,” The Bookman (London), vol. 69, no. 410 (November 1925), pp. 111–112. Bookman Gallery book review of The Hill Beyond by Helen Prothero Lewis.

“A Will-o’-the-Wisp from the Steppes,” The Bookman (London), vol. 69, no. 411 (December 1925), pp. 178–179. Book review of The Dancer’s Cat by C. A. Nicholson.

“Beyond the Sea,” The Bookman (London), vol. 69, no. 412 (January 1926), pp. 226–227. Book review of Doda by Marcu Beza, Barren Ground by Ellen Glasgow, Black Swans by M. L. Skinner, Mary Glenn by Sarah G. Millin, and Marsh Fires by Mary Brearley.

“Glorious Apollo,” The Bookman (London), vol. 69, no. 414 (March 1926), pp. 314–315. Book review of Glorious Apollo by E. Barrington.

“Contrast,” The Bookman (London), vol. 70, no. 415 (April 1926), p. 52. Book review of Hangman’s House by Donn Byrne and Whipped Cream by Geoffrey Moss.

“John Halifax Gentleman,” T. P. and Cassell’s Weekly, April 3, 1926, p. 844. Book review.

“The Poetry of the Prayer Book,” T. P. and Cassell’s Weekly, April 17, 1926, p. 904. Essay.

“Plus Que De L’Esprit,” The Bookman (London), vol. 70, no. 416 (May 1926), pp. 130–131. Book review of Mape by André Maurois.

“The Wing of Psyche,” The Bookman (London), vol. 70, no. 418 (July 1926), p. 214. Book review of The Art of Thought by Graham Wallas.

“Pilgrims of Eternity,” The Bookman (London), vol. 70, no. 419 (August 1926), pp. 265–266. Book review of Desert: a Legend by Martin Armstrong.

“A Posy of Sweet Flowers,” The Bookman (London), vol. 70, no. 420 (September 1926), pp. 300–301. Book review of A Bouquet from France by Wilfred Thorley and A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres, Wilfred Thorley, ed.

“Knowest Thou the Land?,” The Bookman (London), vol. 71, no. 422 (November 1926), pp. 122–123. Book review of Far End by May Sinclair.

“One Coming from Calvary,” The Bookman (London), vol. 71, no. 423 (December 1926), pp. 177–178. Book review of Before the Bombardment by Osbert Sitwell.

“Portrait of a Gentleman,” The Bookman (London), vol. 71, no. 423 (December 1926), pp. 192–193. Book review of Dust on the Wind by C. A. Nicholson.

“Our Immortal Jane,” The Bookman (London), vol. 71, no. 425 (February 1927), pp. 256–258. Book review of The Novels of Jane Austen, published by Oxford University Press.

“Little Miss Burney,” The Bookman (London), vol. 72, no. 429 (June 1927), pp. 163–164. Book review of The Story of Fanny Burney by Muriel Masefield.

“Counsels of Perfection,” The Bookman (London), vol. 72, no. 430 (July 1927), pp. 229–230. Book review of From Place to Place by Irvin Cobb, The Golden Key by Henry van Dyke, and Lucky Numbers by Montague Glass.

“Irony and Mrs. Wharton,” The Bookman (London), vol. 72, no. 432 (September 1927), p. 303. Book review of Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton.

“Blessed are the Meek,” The Argosy, vol. 4, no. 27 (August 1928), pp. 103–105. Short story. [Previously published in The English Review, September 1922]

“The Bread House,” The Argosy, vol. 5, no. 33 (February 1929), pp. 73–76. Short story.

“Owd Blossom,” The Argosy, vol. 8, no. 55 (December 1930), pp. 104–106. Short story.

“In Affection and Esteem: A Hitherto Unpublished Story.” John o’ London’s Weekly, vol. 20, no. 503 (December 8, 1928). Short story.

“The Watcher,” The Spectator, December 3, 1931. Poem.

“Over the Hills and Far Away,” The Argosy, vol. 14, no. 86 (July 1933), pp. 100–102. Short story.

“The Sword,” The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 149, no. 892 (April 1934), pp. 401–409. Short story.

“Springtime,” The Argosy, vol. 15, no. 5 (May 1954), p. 4. Excerpt from Precious Bane.

1930. W. Reid Chappell. The Shropshire of Mary Webb. London: Cecil Palmer.

1931. Hilda Addison. Mary Webb: A Short Study of Her Life and Work. London: Cecil Palmer.

1932. Thomas Moult. Mary Webb: Her Life and Work. London: Jonathan Cape.

1948. W. Byford-Jones. Shropshire Haunts of Mary Webb. Shrewsbury (Shropshire): Wilding and Son, Ltd.

1964. Dorothy P. H. Wrenn. Goodbye to Morning: A Biographical Study of Mary Webb. Shrewsbury (Shropshire): Wilding and Son, Limited.

1970. Vincent Waite. Shropshire Hill Country. London: J. M. Dent and Sons Limited.

1977. Bernard Steff. My Dearest Acquaintance: A Biographical Sketch of Mary and Henry Webb. Ludlow (Shropshire): The Kings’ Bookshop.

1978. Gladys Mary Coles. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. London: Duckworth, 1978; paperback reissue, Wirral (Wales): Headland Publications, 1998.

1981. Gordon Dickens. Mary Webb: A Narrative Bibliography of her Life and Work. Shrewsbury (Shropshire): Shropshire Libraries.

1986. Michèle Aina Barale. Daughters and Lovers: The Life and Writing of Mary Webb. Middletown (Connecticut): Wesleyan University Press.

1990. Gladys Mary Coles. Mary Webb. Bridgend (Wales): Seren Books, reprinted 1996.

1990. Linda Davies. Mary Webb Country: An Introduction to her Life and Work. Ludlow (Shropshire): Palmer’s Press.

1928. G. K. Chesterton. “Introduction,” The Golden Arrow. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 7–10.

1928. John Buchan. “Introduction,” Gone to Earth. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 7–10.

1928. H. R. L. Sheppard. “Introduction,” The House in Dormer Forest. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 9–12.

1928. Robert Lynd. “Introduction,” Seven for a Secret. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 11–13.

1928. Stanley Baldwin. “Introduction,” Precious Bane. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 5–8.

1928. Walter De la Mare. “Introduction,” Poems and The Spring of Joy. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 13–19.

1929. Martin Armstrong. “Introduction,” Armour Wherein He Trusted: A Novel and Some Stories. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 11–16.

[1928.] A. St. John Adcock. The Glory that was Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary Authors. London: Sampson, Lowe, Marston & Co., Ltd., pp. 321–330.

1933. A. Edward Newton. End Papers: Literary Recreations. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, pp. 36–46.

1934. Paul Jordan-Smith. For the Love of Books: The Adventures of an Impecunious Collector. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 76–81.

1934. Frank Swinnerton. The Georgian Literary Scene 1910–1935. London: Hutchison, pp. 246–248.

1934. Frank Swinnerton. The Georgian Scene: A Literary Panorama. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, pp. 313–315.

1935. A. R. Reade. Main Currents in Modern Literature. London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson Limited, pp. 197–213.

1935. Magdalene M. Weale. Through the Highlands of Shropshire on Horseback. London: Heath Cranton Limited, pp. 233–261.

1935. Ilse Knapp. Die Landschaft im modernen englischen Frauen-roman. Tübingen: University of Tübingen, pp. 81–94.

1936. Ernest A. Baker. The History of the English Novel. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, pp. 221–226 and p. 239.

1936. Margaret Lawrence. The School of Femininity. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, pp. 331–338.

1937. Susan Tweedsmuir. “Mary Webb,” Dictionary of National Biography, 1922–1930. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 901–902.

1937. Marcelle Magdinier. “Mary Webb: apôtre et poète de la pitié,” Études, vol. 233 (December 20, 1937), pp. 752–764.

1938. James Carr. “The Novels of Mary Webb,” Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, vol. 63 (1938), Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, pp. 1–16.

1938. Oscar H. Shephard. “The Essays of Mary Webb,” Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, vol. 63 (1938), Manchester: Sherratt & Hughes, pp. 17–22.

1946. Ellery Sedgwick. The Happy Profession. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, pp. 192–196.

1947. Ellery Sedgwick. Atlantic Harvest: Memoirs of The Atlantic. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, p. 375.

1949. Martin Armstrong. “Introduction,” The Essential Mary Webb. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 7–10.

1954. Susan Tweedsmuir. A Winter Bouquet. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., pp. 110–115.

1954. Lucien Leclaire. Le Roman régionaliste dans les Iles Britanniques: 1800–1950. Paris: Société d’Édition, pp. 168, 172–174, 177, 219, 245, 258n, and 274.

1954. Lucien Leclaire. A General Analytical Bibliography of the Regional Novelists of the British Isles: 1800–1950. Paris: Société d’Édition, pp. 288–290.

1956. Percy Muir. Minding My Own Business: An Autobiography. London: Chatto & Windus, pp. 198–201.

1960. Frank Shepherd. Many Mansions. Leigh-on-Sea: Citizen Publishing Co. Ltd., pp. 20–27.

1962. David A. Randall. Dukedom Large Enough. New York: Random House, pp. 170–174.

1966. Charles Sanders. “Mary Webb: An Introduction.” English Literature in Transition (1880–1920), vol. 9, no. 3 (1966), pp. 115–118.

1966. Charles Sanders. “Mary Webb: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings about Her.” English Literature in Transition (1880–1920), Vol. 9, No. 3 (1966), pp. 119–136.

1967. Charles Sanders. “The Golden Arrow: Mary Webb’s ‘Apocalypse of Love’.” English Literature in Transition (1880–1920), Vol. 10, No. 1 (1967), pp. 1–8.

1971. Michael S. Howard. Jonathan Cape, Publisher. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 98–102.

1972. Claude Cockburn. Bestseller: The Books Everyone Read 1900–1939. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, pp. 173–181.

1972. Barbara Hannah. Striving Towards Wholeness. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., pp. 72–104.

1977. Glen Cavaliero. The Rural Tradition in the English Novel 1900–1939. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press Ltd., pp. 133–146.

1984. Erika Duncan. Unless Soul Clap its Hands: Portraits and Passages. New York: Schocken Books, pp. 153–177.

1994. Gladys Mary Coles. The Echoing Green. Hexham: Flambard Press, pp. 51–70.

1998. Reggie Oliver. Out of the Woodshed: The Life of Stella Gibbons. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, pp. 63–66 and 111–118.

1916
“New Novels” (review of The Golden Arrow). Times Literary Supplement, September 7, 1916, p. 428.
1917
“New Novels” (review of The Golden Arrow). The Nation, March 29, 1917.

“The New Books” (review of The Golden Arrow). The Outlook, no. 115 (April 11, 1917), p. 668.

“The Golden Arrow.” The New York Times Book Review, May 6, 1917, p. 183.

“Notes on New Fiction” (review of The Golden Arrow). Dial, vol. 62 (May 7, 1917), pp. 443–444.

Helene Cross. (review of The Golden Arrow and Gone to Earth), The Bookman (New York), vol. 45 (Mar-Aug 1917).

“Amid the Hills of Wales” (review of The Golden Arrow). Independent, June 2, 1917, p. 438.

“Gone to Earth.” The New York Times Book Review, August 26, 1917, p. 318.

Rebecca West. “Gone to Earth.” Times Literary Supplement, August 30, 1917, p. 416.

“List of New Books” (review of Gone to Earth). Athenaeum, no. 4621 (September 1917), p. 471.

D. P. Berenberg. “Gone to Earth.” New York Call, September 9, 1917, p. 15.

“Notes on New Fiction” (review of Gone to Earth). Dial, vol. 63 (September 13, 1917), p. 220.

“Among the ‘Localists’” (review of Gone to Earth). The Nation, vol. 105 (September 20, 1917), p. 317.

“Readable Novels” (review of Gone to Earth). The Spectator, vol. 119 (September 22, 1917), p. 300.
1920
“New Novels” (review of The House in Dormer Forest). Times Literary Supplement, July 22, 1920, p. 471.

“Novels in Brief” (review of The House in Dormer Forest). Athenaeum, no. 4710 (August 6, 1920), p. 179.

“The House in Dormer Forest.” The London Mercury, no. 11 (September 1920), pp. 626–627.
1921
D. L. Mann. “The House in Dormer Forest.” Boston Evening Transcript, no. 26 (January 1921), p. 8.

“The House in Dormer Forest.” The New York Times, January 30, 1921, p. 23.

Mary Alden Hopkins. “Family Fetishes” (review of The House in Dormer Forest). Publisher’s Weekly, no. 99 (February 19, 1921), p. 574.

“New Novels” (review of The House in Dormer Forest). The Outlook, no. 128 (May 4, 1921), p. 28.

“Rebels” (review of The House in Dormer Forest). The Nation, no. 112 (May 25, 1921), p. 749 and pp. 791–792.
1922
“New Novels” (review of Seven for a Secret). Times Literary Supplement, November 9, 1922, p. 726.

“The Heart of the Country” (review of Seven for a Secret). The Spectator, no. 129 (November 11, 1922), p. 666.

Gerald Gould. “New Fiction” (review of Seven for a Secret). Saturday Review, vol. 134 (December 2, 1922), pp. 843–844.

Louis J. McQuilland. “Seven for a Secret.” John o’ London’s Weekly, volume 8, no. 191 (December 2, 1922), p. 324.
1923
Raymond Mortimer. “New Novels” (review of Seven for a Secret). New Statesman, no. 20 (January 27, 1923), p. 485.

Edwin Pugh. “Mary Webb” (review of Precious Bane). The Bookman (London), vol. 64 (April 1923), pp. 7–8.

“Seven for a Secret.” The New York Times, May 20, 1923, p. 19.

E. W. Osborn. “His Love Points the Way of Life to Young Rideout” (review of Seven for a Secret). New York World, May 27, 1923, p. 6E.

H. W. Boynton. “Seven for a Secret.” Independent, no. 60 (June 23, 1923), p. 406.

J. K. Singleton. “New Novels” (review of Seven for a Secret). The New Republic, no. 30 (June 27, 1923), p. 129.

D. L. Mann. “Seven for a Secret.” Boston Evening Transcript, July 3, 1923, p. 6.

Lillian Gilkes. “Rural Romance” (review of Seven for a Secret). Book News and Reviews (New York Tribune), July 22, 1923, p. 23.

“A Slender Welsh Story” (review of Seven for a Secret). Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), July 22, 1923, p. 7A.

H. H. “Seven for a Secret.” Literary Digest International Book Review, vol. 1 (September 1923), pp. 59–60.

“Books in Brief” (review of Seven for a Secret), The Nation, No. 67 (October 10, 1923), p. 410.

“Seven for a Secret.” Literary Review (New York Evening Post), October 20, 1923, p. 165.
1924
“New Novels” (review of Precious Bane). Times Literary Supplement, July 17, 1924, p. 448.

L. P. Hartley. “Sacred and Profane Love” (review of Precious Bane). The Spectator, no. 138 (August 2, 1924), p. 168.

Austin Clarke. “Novels” (review of Precious Bane). The Nation and the Athenaeum, vol. 35 (August 2, 1924), pp. 560–570.

T. P. O’Connor. “The Hunger for the Land” (Book of the Week: review of Precious Bane). T. P. & Cassell’s Weekly, August 24, 1924, pp. 487–488.

Gerald Gould. “New Fiction” (review of Precious Bane). Saturday Review, vol. 138 (August 30, 1924), p. 221.

John Franklin. “New Novels” (review of Precious Bane). New Statesman, no. 23 (August 30, 1924), p. 599.

Edwin Pugh. “Promise and Performance” (review of Precious Bane). The Bookman (London), vol. 66 (September 1924), p. 324.

“Mary Webb Writing Short Stories,” T. P.’s and Cassell’s Weekly, December 20, 1924. [Cited in The Flower of Light, p. 273.]
1925
“Mary Webb returned from Shropshire and Radnorshire seeking inspiration for her new novel”,” T. P.’s and Cassell’s Weekly, June 6, 1925, p. 200. [Cited in The Flower of Light, p. 283.]
1926
“Telegrams in Brief” (Notice of award of Femina vie Heureuse prize for 1924–1925 to Mary Webb for Precious Bane), The Times (London), February 12, 1926, p. 11.

L. M. Field. “Precious Bane.” Literary Review (New York Evening Post), May 29, 1926, p. 3.

S. L. Cook. “Precious Bane.” Boston Transcript, June 5, 1926, p. 5.

J. W. C. “Precious Bane.” New York World, June 6, 1926, p. 4.

Mary Kolars. “A Shropshire Tragedy” (review of Precious Bane). Books (New York Herald Tribune), June 6, 1926, p. 12.

“Precious Bane.” The New York Times, June 20, 1926, p. 8.

“Anglo-French Literary Prizes Presented.” The Times (London), July 7, 1926, p. 18.

“Precious Bane.” Saturday Review of Literature (New York), vol. 2 (July 17, 1926), p. 939.

“The New Books” (review of Precious Bane). The Outlook, no. 143 (July 28, 1926), p. 449.

L. Moore. “Precious Bane.” Literary Digest International Book Review, August 26, 1926, p. 548.

E. M. J. “Precious Bane.” Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), September 26, 1926, p. 7.

Marian Vaillant. “Precious Bane.” The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 138, no. 22 (September 1926), p. 22 and p. 24.

“Precious Bane.” Booklist, vol. 23 (November 1926), p. 85.
1927
Caradoc Evans, ed. (notice of Mary Webb’s death). T. P. and Cassell’s Weekly, December 31, 1927.

Arthur St. John Adcock, ed. “The Bookman’s Diary” (notice of Mary Webb’s death). The Bookman (London), vol. 72, no. 432 (December 1927).

“Notice of Mary Webb’s Death on October 8, 1927.” The Dickensian, vol. 24, no. 205 (Winter 1927–1928), p. 75.
1928
“Royal Literary Fund, 138th Anniversary Dinner: Mr. Baldwin’s Speech.” The Times (London), April 26, 1928, p. 18.

“Mrs. Mary Webb” (obituary). The Times (London), April 27, 1928, p. 21.

Arnold Bennett. “Books and Persons” (comments on Baldwin’s speech and Mary Webb’s novels). The Evening Standard, May 3, 1928.

“Books that Should Sell.” The New York Times, May 9, 1928, p. 24.

J. C. Squire. “Mary Webb.” The London Mercury, May 1928, pp. 6–8.

Ernest Marshall. “Baldwin Aids Sale of Obscure Books.” The New York Times, May 13, 1928, Section 3, p. 7.

“News and Views of Literary London.” The New York Times Book Review, May 20, 1928, p. 10.

Daphne Clare. “The Life Story of Mary Webb.” The Evening Standard, June 8, 1928, p. 18.

Mary Webb. “The Golden Arrow: Begin to enjoy it today” (the first installment of Webb’s novel serialized daily through August 1928). The Evening Standard, June 9, 1928, p. 8.

“Who was Mary Webb?” Literary Digest, vol. 97 (June 9, 1928), p. 25.

Edwin Pugh. “Mary Webb.” The Bookman (London), vol. 74, no. 442 (July 1928), pp. 193–196.

“New Fiction. Symbolism in Man and Nature.” (review of Collected Edition of Gone to Earth). Time and Tide, August 31, 1928.

Kathleen Lee. “For Mary Webb,” The Bookman (London), vol. 74 (September 1928), p. 299.

T. Earle Welby. “Reviews. Mr. Pound and Others” (review of Poems and The Spring of Joy). Saturday Review, vol. 146 (December 22, 1928), pp. 851–852.

“The Poems of Mary Webb” (review of Poems and The Spring of Joy). Times Literary Supplement, December 27, 1928, p. 102.
1929
“Mary Webb’s Last Story” (review of Armour Wherein He Trusted). The Times (London), January 28, 1929, p. 17.

“New Novels” (review of Armour Wherein He Trusted). Times Literary Supplement, January 31, 1929, p. 8.

Wilfred Gibson. “The Poems of Mary Webb” (review of Poems and The Spring of Joy). The Bookman (London), vol. 75 (February 1929), pp. 269–270.

Almey St. John Adcock. “Armour Wherein He Trusted.” The Bookman (London), vol. 75 (March 1929), p. 332.

Gertrude Diamant. “Armour Wherein He Trusted.” New York World, vol. 28 (April 1929), p. 10.

H. P. Marshall. “Mary Webb” (review of Webb’s Collected Works). The Edinburgh Review, vol. 249, no. 508 (April 1929), pp. 315–327.

L. M. Field. “Armour Wherein He Trusted.” New York Evening Post, April 13, 1929, p. 10.

Walter R. Brooks. “Picked at Random” (review of Armour Wherein He Trusted). The Outlook, vol. 60 (April 17, 1929), p. 629 and p. 636.

Alice Beal Parsons. “Mary Webb’s Last Book” (review of Armour Wherein He Trusted). Books (New York Herald Tribune), April 21, 1929, p. 4.

F. B. “Mary Webb’s Poems” (review of Poems and The Spring of Joy). Boston Transcript, April 27, 1929, p. 5.

“Armour Wherein He Trusted.” The New York Times, April 28, 1929, p. 6.

Geraint Goodwin. “Mary Webb.” The Everyman, May 2, 1929, pp. 14–15. [Cited in correspondence dated April 26, 1967 between Margaret Hardy and J.M. Dent & sons Ltd.]

C. M. K. “Armour Wherein He Trusted.” Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), May 5, 1929, p. 7.

“Armour Wherein He Trusted.” The Bookman (New York), vol. 69 (May 29, 1929), p. 23.

C. M. K. “Poems and The Spring of Joy.” Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), June 23, 1929, p. 7.

“Shropshire Moods” (review of the Collected Works of Mary Webb), The Outlook and Independent, vol. 152 (June 26, 1929), p. 348.

Charles Divine. “Sweet Music” (review of Poems and The Spring of Joy). The New York Herald Tribune, July 14, 1929, p. 17.

J. Dana Tasker. “Potentialities” (review of Poems and The Spring of Joy). The Nation, vol. 129 (July 24, 1929), p. 96.

Alice Beal Parsons. “Mary Webb.” The Nation, vol. 129 (August 7, 1929), pp. 145–146.

Louise Bogan. “Mary Webb” (review of The House in Dormer Forest, Seven for a Secret, and Poems and The Spring of Joy). The New Republic, vol. 59 (August 14, 1929), p. 348.

Ethel Wallace Hawkins. “The Books of Mary Webb” (review of Poems and The Spring of Joy). The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 144 (August 1929), p. 12 and p. 14.

“Poems and The Spring of Joy.” The Pratt Institute Quarterly Booklist, Autumn 1929, p. 27.
1930s
Bernhard Fehr. Die englische Literatur der Gegenwart und die Kulturfragen unserer Zeit. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1930, p. 80.

“Tours Through Literary England—X: The Mary Webb Country.” Saturday Review, vol. 150 (August 30, 1930), pp. 251–252.

André Bellesort. “Littérature Etrangère (review of French translation of Precious Bane). Le Correspondent, vol. 322 or New Series, no. 286 (January 10, 1931), pp. 129–137.

Adrian Bury. “An Impression of Mary Webb.” Sufi Quarterly (Geneva), vol. 7 (January 1931), pp. 7–10 and p. 330.

Grace Chapman. “Mary Webb” (review of Webb’s Collected Works). The London Mercury, vol. 23, no. 136 (February 1931), pp. 364–371.

Edward Lewis. Precious Bane: A Play in a Prologue and Three Acts, Adapted from the Novel of Mary Webb. London and New York: Samuel French, 1932.

André Bellesort. “Littérature Etrangère: Un Roman de Mary Webb et quelques autres” (review of French translation of The House in Dormer Forest). Le Correspondent, vol. 328, or New Series, no. 242 (September 1932), pp. 777–783.

R. G. “Littératures Etrangères: Le poids des ombres” (review of French translation of The House in Dormer Forest). Bravo: le magazine moderne, no. 46 (November 1932), p. 25.

Hans Hecht. “Der Sündenesser,” Englische studien, vol. 47 (November 1932), pp. 238–246.

I. Shipton. “The Childhood of Mary Webb.” The Bookman (London), December 1932, p. 195.

Gladys E. Peake. “The Religious Teachings of Mary Webb.” Congregational Quarterly, vol. 11 (January 1933), pp. 41–51.

Lorna Collard. “Mary Webb” (review of Thomas Moult biography of Mary Webb). Contemporary Review, vol. 143 (April 1933), pp. 455–464.

Bernhard Fehr. Die englische Literatur der heutigen Stunde. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1934, p. 82–83.

Salvatore Rosati. “Letteratura inglese: George Moore—Katherine Mansfield—Mary Webb,” Nuova Antologia, vol. 303 (October 1935), pp. 553–7.

Ernst Vowinckel. Der englische Roman zwischen den Jahrzehnten 1927–1935. Berlin: F. A. Herbig, 1936, pp. 101–102.

E. Thévenot. “Mary Webb,” Larousse Mensuel, Paris: Librairie Larousse, vol. 10 (1938), p. 658.

“In Affection and Esteem.” Scholastic, vol. 32 (May 21, 1938), p. 4.

Irene Marinoff. “Die Romane Mary Webbs,” Anglia, vol. 60 (June 1938), pp. 434–448.

Edward Weeks. “Bookshelf” (review of Gone to Earth). The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 163 (July 1938).

Caradoc Evans. “Mary Webb.” The Colophon, New Series 3, no. 1 (Winter 1938), pp. 63–66.

“A Mary Webb Anthology.” Times Literary Supplement, December 2, 1939, p. 697.
1940s
Ann Springer. “Woman’s Genius Akin to Hardy’s” (review of A Mary Webb Anthology). Boston Transcript, March 6, 1940, p. IE.

“A Mary Webb Anthology.” Books (New York Herald Tribune), March 17, 1940, p. 26.

“Mary Webb’s Writings” (review of A Mary Webb Anthology). Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), April 3, 1940, p. 8.

“A Reader’s List” (review of A Mary Webb Anthology). The New Republic, vol. 102 (April 15, 1940), p. 514.

“A Mary Webb Anthology.” Booklist, vol. 36 (April 15, 1940), p. 322.

E. L. Tinker. “A Mary Webb Anthology.” The New York Times, May 26, 1940, p. 23.

E. V. A. “A Mary Webb Anthology.” Forum, vol. 103 (June 1940), p. 333.

Robert L. Pittfield. “The Shropshire Lass and her Goitre: Some Accounts of Mary Meredith Webb and her Works.” Annals of Medical History, vol. 4 (July 13, 1942), pp. 284–293.

“Collection of Mary Webb,” Hobbies, vol. 47 (September 1942), p. 97.

Caradoc Evans. “Mary Webb.” Welsh Review, March 1, 1944.

J. Donald Adams. “Speaking of Books” (review of The Spring of Joy). The New York Times, December 31, 1944.

Hugo Manning. “Fifty-One Poems.” The Manchester Guardian, December 31, 1946, p. 3.

Richard Church. “Fifty-One Poems.” The Spectator, vol. 178 (January 3, 1947), p. 22.

P. J. H. H. “Fifty-One Poems.” The Christian Science Monitor, February 8, 1947, p. 10.

“Fifty-One Poems.” Booklist, vol. 44 (October 15, 1947), p. 65.

Weldon Kees. “Fifty-One Poems.” The New York Times, November 9, 1947, p. 6.

“Fifty-One Poems.” Wisconsin Literary Bulletin, vol. 43 (November 1947), p. 151.

Gerald MacDonald. “Fifty-One Poems.” Library Journal, vol. 72 (December 1, 1947), p. 1688.

Wilfred Shepherd. “The Faith and Fiction of Mary Webb.” London Quarterly and Holborn Review, October 1949, pp. 305–11.
1950s
Mander, Constance A. “A Tramp Over the Country” (Mary Webb described in Gone to Earth). Shropshire Magazine, May 1956.

Fontinoy, Charles. “Thèmes de légendes dans Gone to Earth.” Rivista di litterature moderne e comparate (Florence), vol. 9 (Winter 1956), pp. 58–63.

Wright, A. J. “30th Anniversary of Mary Webb’s Death.” Shropshire Magazine, October 1957, pp. 11–13.
1960s
Sanders, Charles. “Webb’s Precious Bane, Book III, Chapter 2.” The Explicator, vol. 25, no. 2 (October 1966), p. 10.

Margaret Hardy. “Lost Poem is Found: Mary Webb’s first published work comes to light after 60 years,” March 17, 1967. Unpublished manuscript held at the Shropshire Archives, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury.

———. “Notes on the Meredith Family: from information given by Mr. Kenneth Meredith, eldest brother of Mary Webb,” May 1967. Unpublished manuscript held at the Shropshire Archives, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury.

———. “The Poems of Mary Webb.” Shropshire Magazine, vol. 19, no. 5 (July 1967), p. 22.

Ralph Oldham. “The Bleak House on Wenlock Edge” (“Undern” in Mary Webb’s Gone to Earth). Shropshire Magazine, vol. 19, no. 8 (October 1967), p. 30.

Flora McLeod. “Mary Webb as I Knew Her.” [n.d.] Unpublished manuscript of a talk given to members of the Shropshire Women’s Institute, held at the Shropshire Archives, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury.

H. E. Gerber. “Mary Webb.” English Literature in Transition (1880–1920), vol. 11, no. 56 (1968), p. 56.

W. Eugene Davis. “The Poetry of Mary Webb: An Invitation.” English Literature in Transition (1880–1920), vol. 11, no. 2 (1968), pp. 95–101.

Michelle Dassie. “Mary Webb’s Contribution to The Bookman.” Caliban, no. 6 (1969), pp. 73–76.
1970s
Gladys Mary Coles. “Mary Webb as a Book Reviewer.” Shropshire Magazine, September 1970, p. 17–18.

———. “Mary Webb’s Roman Shropshire” Country Quest, August 1971, p. 8–10.

———. “Mary Webb’s work . . . ‘made a splendid fire which lasted a long time.’” Shropshire Magazine, vol. 24, no. 7 (September 1971), p. 18.

W. K. McNeil. “The Function of Legend, Belief and Custom in Precious Bane.” Folklore, vol. 82 (1971), pp. 132–146.

Bernard Steff. “A Sketch of Mary Webb’s Shropshire.” Country Life, vol. 152 (October 12, 1972), pp. 888–890.

Julian Critchley. “Mary Webb’s Love Letters to Nature.” The Illustrated London News, January 1975, pp. 57–58.

Gladys Mary Coles. “Mary Webb: 50th Anniversary of her Death.” Shropshire Magazine, December 1976, p. 23.

Paul Deane. “The Soul of the World: A Study of the Work of Mary Webb.” Modern British Literature, vol. 2, no. 1 (Spring 1977), pp. 44–57.

Erika Duncan. “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman. A Study of the Life and Work of Mary Webb.” 1977. [Carbon copy typed draft catalogued by the University of Tulsa in the Rebecca West Special Collections holdings.]

Brian Watkins. “A Shropshire Lass: Mary Webb (1881–1927).” Country Life, October 20, 1977, pp. 1100–1101.

Gladys Mary Coles. “Mary Webb—Fifty Years On.” Shropshire Magazine, October 1977, p. 21.

———. “Child of Spring” Country Quest, May 1978.

Erika Duncan. “Rediscovering Mary Webb.” Book Forum: An International Transdisciplinary Quarterly, vol. 4 (1978), pp. 326–338.

Simon Appleyard. “The Shropshire World of Mary Webb.” This England, Spring 1979, pp. 14–20.
1980s
Rosalind Coward. “This Novel Changes Lives: Are Women’s Novels Feminist Novels? A Response to Rebecca O’Rourke’s Article ‘Summer Reading’.” Feminist Review, no. 5 (1980), pp. 53-64.

Carol Snape. My Wife Did a Bit of Scribbling. Unpublished script for radio play, 1980. [Courtesy of Carol Snape-Barker]

Micheline Wandor. Three-part serial dramatization of Precious Bane for BBC Radio 4. 1981, 55 minutes each, starring Miriam Margolyes.

John H. Paterson and Evangeline Paterson. “Shropshire: Reality and Symbol in the Work of Mary Webb.” Humanistic Geography and Literature: Essays on the Experience of Place, London: Croom Helm, 1981, pp. 209–220.

Marjorie Sykes. “Shropshire’s Literary Landscape: A Centenary Tour of Mary Webb Country.” This England, Spring 1981, pp. 50–53.

———. “The Anglo-Welsh Genius: Mary Webb.” Anglo-Welsh Review, vol. 68 (1981), pp. 74–81.

Dorothy P. H. Wrenn. “Mary Webb’s Husband,” May 1981. Unpublished transcript of a lecture delivered at the Mary Webb Society’s Summer School, Shropshire Archives, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury.

———. “Mary Webb and Thomas Hardy.” [n.d.] Unpublished transcript of a lecture delivered at the Mary Webb Society’s Summer School, held at the Shropshire Archives, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury.

———. “Seven for a Secret: the novel and its characters.” [n.d.] Unpublished transcript of a lecture delivered at the Mary Webb Society’s Summer School, held at the Shropshire Archives, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury.

Gladys Mary Coles. “The Poetry of Mary Webb.” Poetry Wales, vol. 17, no. 2 (Autumn 1981), pp. 83–93.

Gail Pool. “The Hunters and the Hunted” (review of Gone to Earth). The Nation, September 25, 1982, pp. 279–281.

Sarah Newell. “Two Country Classics” (review of Gone to Earth and Precious Bane). The New York Times Book Review, October 24, 1982, p. 30.

Patricia Craig. “Paperbacks in Brief” (review of Seven for a Secret). Times Literary Supplement, November 26, 1982, p. 1318.
1990s
Edmund Cusick. “Mary Webb’s Borderland.” The New Welsh Review, vol. 3 (Spring 1991), pp. 26–33.

Michelene Wandor. Three-part serial dramatization of Gone to Earth for BBC Radio 4. 1981, 60 minutes each.

Kenneth Milner. Best Day of My Life: Mary Webb (Young Mary Meredith) at Much Wenlock. Much Wenlock (Shropshire): Much Wenlock Dormer, 1999.
2000s
Hugo Jones. “The Webbs of Shropshire.” Shropshire Unfolded, March 2001, pp. 21–25.

Eric Gardner. “A Nobler End: Mary Webb and the Victorian Platform.” Nineteenth Century Prose, vol. 29, no. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 103–116.

Ann Daniel. “Mary Gladys Webb: 1881–1927, Part One.” Shropshire Unfolded, June 2002, pp. 14–15.

———. “Mary Gladys Webb: 1881–1927, Part Two.” Shropshire Unfolded, July 2002, pp. 16–17.

———. “Mary Gladys Webb: 1881–1927, Part Three.” Shropshire Unfolded, August 2002, pp. 18–19.

———. “Mary Gladys Webb: 1881–1927, Part Four.” Shropshire Unfolded, September 2002, pp. 20–1.

Patricia A. Evans. Poetic Landscapes: Watercolour Paintings, With quotations from the Works of Mary Webb. Pennerley: Tankerville Gallery, 2002.

Bryony Lavery. Precious Bane by Mary Webb; Dramatized by Bryony Lavery. London: Oberon Books Ltd., 2003. A world premiere production by Pentabus Theatre in association with English Trust. First performed at Walcot Hall, Shropshire on July 11, 2003.

Helen Edmundson. Gone to Earth by Mary Webb; Dramatized by Helen Edmundson. London: Nick Hern Books, 2004.

Andrew Radford. “A Note on Hardy’s Tess and Mary Webb’s Gone to Earth.” Thomas Hardy Journal, February 2004, pp. 56–60.

———. “Gone to Earth: Hardy’s Tess, Mary Webb and the Persephone Myth.” Thomas Hardy Yearbook, no. 35 (February 2004), pp. 55–72.

Gladys Mary Coles. The Magic of Shropshire with Mary Webb, pamphlet. Shropshire: Shropshire Tourist (UK), Ltd., 2004.

Kenneth Milner. Lullingford: Mary Webb’s Much Wenlock. Much Wenlock (Shropshire): K. Milner, 2004.

Andrew Radford. The Lost Girls: Demeter-Persephone and the Literary Imagination, 1850–1930. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007.

Gladys Mary Coles. “Mary Webb: a Shropshire Naturalist.” Shropshire Wildlife. Winter 2008, p. 7.

Millar, Eloise. “Mary Webb: brighter and better than Thomas Hardy.” The Guardian, March 10, 2009, weblink: HYPERLINK “http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/mar/10/virago-mary-webb-thomas-hardy/print” www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/mar/10/virago-mary-webb-thomas-hardy/print.

1934. Zelina Florence Marcel. “A Dictionary of Characters in the Novels of Mary Webb.” M.A. thesis, University of Kansas.

1934. Howard Parker Whitney. “Novels of Mary Webb.” M.A. thesis, Boston University.

1934. Gertrud Schneider. “Die Verwendung und Bedeutung der Folklore in den Romanen von Mary Webb.” Inaugural diss., University of Göttingen, Germany.

1936. Mary Mondy. “The Dialect in the Novels of Mary Webb, 1881–1927.” M.A. thesis, Southern Methodist University.

1936. Marianne Tiemann. “Naturbetrachtung und Weltanschauung in den Werken von Mary Webb.” Inaugural diss., University of Greifswald, Germany.

1956. Carolyn Emily Foster. “Folklore in Mary Webb’s Novel, Precious Bane.” M.A. thesis, University of Maryland.

1956. M. P. G. Tolfree. “A Bibliography of Mary Webb.” Diploma in Librarianship, University of London.

1957. Ronald W. Butler. “The Relation of Art to Thought in the Novels of Mary Webb.” M.A. thesis, University of Kentucky.

1959. Floyd Dale Fairweather. “Mary Webb: Her World.” M.A. thesis, University of Idaho.

1960. W. J. de V. Prinsloo. “The Regional Novels of Arnold Bennett and Mary Webb: A Study in Contrasts.” M.A. thesis, Potchefstroom University, South Africa.

1965. Mary Anne Mullally. “Mary Webb: Novelist of Shropshire Life.” M.A. thesis, University de Montréal.

1970. Virginia Griscom. “The Quest for Beauty; an Examination of the Life and Work of Mary Webb.” M.A. thesis, Georgia State University.

1973. Donna Binnion Smith. “Character Interaction as an Expression of Theme in the Novels of Mary Webb.” M.A. thesis, Tennessee Technological University.

1974. Beth Bowden. “Mysticism and Morbidity in the Work of Mary Webb.” M.A. (Hons.) thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, Australia.

1978. John Studley. “The Novels of Mary Webb: A Reading and Interpretation.” Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, Canada.

1977. Linda Morley. “Folklore in Mary Webb’s novel, Precious Bane.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania.

1982. Frances Josephine Dehn. “The Novels of Mary Webb as an Expression of a Mythology.” Ph.D. diss., Kent State University.

1983. Helen Irish May. “Life as Lyric Drama in the Fiction of Mary Webb.” Ph.D. diss., Florida State University, 1983.

1983. Michèle Aina Barale. “The Wish Unspoken: The Novels of Mary Webb.” Ph.D. diss., University of Colorado, 1983.

1986. Barbara Duffin-Bates. “Mary Webb’s Vision of the World: A Study in the Character Development, Patterning and Symbolism of her Novels.” M.A. thesis, Acadia University (Ottawa).

1988. Becky Richards Edgerton. “Bright Glass: The Fictional World of Mary Webb.” Ed.D. diss., University of Northern Colorado.

1991. Janice Miller Potter. “Both Fair and Good: The Novels of Mary Webb.” Ph.D. diss., University of Connecticut.

1992. Christy Pesci. “The Poetry and Poetical Prose of Mary Webb.” M.A. thesis, California State University, Dominguez Hills.

1992. Michelle R. Queen. “The Dragonfly’s Shroud: Reading the Medieval Gothic Images in the Works of Mary Webb.” M.A. thesis, North Carolina State University.

1996. Annemarie K. Gillin. “Monstrification: The Sign and the Condition in Three Fictional Heroines.” M.A. thesis, University of Louisville.

2005. James Homer Thrall. “Mystic Moderns: Agency and Enchantment in Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair and Mary Webb.” Ph.D. diss., Duke Univ., 2005.

1933. Michael Head. Foxgloves. London: Boosey and Hawkes. Songs (high voice) with piano. Words by Gladys Mary Meredith Webb.

1933. Edmund Rubbra. In Dark Weather: Song with Pianoforte. London: Augener Ltd. Songs (high voice) with piano. Words by Gladys Mary Meredith Webb.

1936. Irvin Hinchliffe. Green Rain. London: Oxford University Press. Songs (low voice) with piano. Words by Gladys Mary Meredith Webb.

1937. Roland Leich. Be Still, you Little Leaves. Songs with piano. Words by Gladys Mary Meredith Webb. [Located in the Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Folder 1101.]

1938. Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Be Still you Little Leaves. Paris: editions de l’Oiseau lyre. Songs with piano. Words by Gladys Mary Meredith Webb.

1946. Vivienne Ada Maurice Lambelt. Ah, Do Not Be So Sweet: Song (with Piano Accompaniment). London: J. & W. Chester Ltd.

1949. Bernard Naylor. Rose-berries: Song. Toronto: Western Music Co. Words by Gladys Mary Meredith Webb.

1962. Celius Dougherty. Song for Autumn: For Voice and Piano. New York: G. Schirmer. Songs (high voice) with piano. Words by Gladys Mary Meredith Webb.

2005. Richard Moult. The Secret Joy. Handricourt (France): Cynfeirdd. Compact disc of fifteen poems set to music with Kathy Taylor-Jones (mezzo-soprano), Kate Hopkins (soprano) and Nicholas Chalmers (piano). Words for thirteen of the fifteen songs by Mary Webb, including Presences; A Hawthorn Berry; Dawn; A Summer Day; A Night Sky; Like a Poppy on a Tower; The Shell; The Snowdrop; The Secret Joy; Roseberries; A Rainy Day; Be Still, You Little Leaves; and The Sedge Warbler

2007. Howard Skempton. Five Poems of Mary Webb: For SSA Chorus. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1923. Michael Peele. Shropshire in Poem and Legend. Shrewsbury: Wilding and Son, Ltd.

1924. Joseph Collins. “Reading Matter for Invalids and the Novels of Mary Webb,” Taking the Literary Pulse: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters. New York: George H. Doran, pp. 207–218.

1924. Gerald Gould. The English Novel of Today. London: John Castle, p. 218.

1925. Cornelius Weygandt. A Century of the Novel. New York: Century, p. 479.

1932. Robert M. Lovett, and Helen Sard Hughes. The History of Novel in England. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, p. 440.

1933. Stanley J.Kunitz, ed. Authors Today and Yesterday. New York: H. W. Wilson, pp. 678–681.

1936. Elkin Mathews Ltd. First and Last: A Catalogue of First Editions and Manuscripts. Bookseller’s Catalogue Number 68. Items 59–61, October 1936.

1937. E. Moore Darling. Seeing Shropshire. Shrewsbury (Shropshire): Adnitt & Naunton, Ltd.

1938. Elkin Mathews Ltd. Books from the Libraries of Sir James Barrie and Mr. Aldous Huxley together with the Personal Library of Mary Webb consisting of only 30 Volumes. Bookseller’s Catalogue Number 73. Items 349–78, February 1938.

1939. S. P. B. Mais. Highways and Byways in The Welsh Marches. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited.

1941. Phyllis Bentley. The English Regional Novel. London: George Allen & Unwin, pp. 34–35.

1941. George Sampson. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 975–976.

1941. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. The A. Edward Newton Collection of Books and Manuscripts, Part Three: N-Z, to be sold at Auction on October 29 and 30, 1941. Items 503–9.

1942. Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, eds. Twentieth Century Authors. New York: H. W. Wilson, p. 1486.

1948. Samuel C. Chew. “The Nineteenth Century and After,” A Literary History of England, Albert C. Baugh, ed. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948, p. 1472, n. 23.

1950. Sherard Vines. 100 Years of English Literature. London: Gerald Duckworth, p. 260.

1950. John Drinkwater, ed. “The Outline of Literature.” London: George Newnes, p. 759.

1951. S. Diana Neill. A Short History of the Novel. London: Jarrolds, p. 282.

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1952. Frederick Grice. Folk Tales of the West Midlands. London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd.

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1956. Clarence L. Barnhart. The New Century Handbook of English Literature. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, pp. 1132–1133.

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