Seven for a Secret

1922 novel by Mary Webb

Seven for a Secret

First edition (UK)

Author| Mary Webb
Language| English
Genre| Regional drama
Publisher| Hutchinson (UK)
George H. Doran (US)

Publication date

| 1922
Publication place| United Kingdom
Media type| Print

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.

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