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Although now largely unknown, the House in Dormer Forest is one of the novels parodied by Stella Gibbons in Cold Comfort Farm

Although now largely unknown, the House in Dormer Forest is one of the novels parodied by Stella Gibbons in Cold Comfort Farm

Dormer is an old house with Elizabethan origins, much added to. It sits, very isolated, in a cup of the Shropshire hills, surrounded by forest. The Darke family have lived there for centuries.

Dormer is an old house with Elizabethan origins, much added to. Solomon Darke is a squire farmer who tends to unthinking conservatism; his wife Rachel is harsh, fierce and uncompromising.

In the depths of Dormer Forest, nestling in a valley, lies Dormer Old House, inhabited by the Drake family, Solomon and Rachael with their four grown children: intense, idealistic Jasper, Ruby, pretty but silly, black-eyed Peter and the odd one out, Amber, a girl with a genius for loving – an. .

In the depths of Dormer Forest, nestling in a valley, lies Dormer Old House, inhabited by the Drake family, Solomon and Rachael with their four grown children: intense, idealistic Jasper, Ruby, pretty but silly, black-eyed Peter and the odd one out, Amber, a girl with a genius for loving – and laughing. There too lives cousin Catherine of the slanting eyes, whose pleasure it is to ensnare men’s hearts. Brooding over all is the great matriarch, Grandmother Velindre, with her religious texts and reprimands, her beady eye ever upon the five young people in serach of love and happiness.

Webb, Mary, 1881-1927. Note: New York: G. H. Doran C. c1921.

The initial chapters of Mary Webb’s ‘The House in Dormer Forest’ are mildly entertaining. The novel is set in melancholy surroundings in rural Shropshire. Most of the leading characters are members of an extended family (and their servants), cooped up in a spooky old house. The grandmother and the loopy, ingratiating curate are particularly funny. Amber, the heroine, however, is dull and dreamy. The illustrator highlights the menacing aspects of several characters, including Enoch the handyman, together with the brooding atmosphere of house and forest.

1937 AUTHOR: Mary Webb. PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape. Acceptable - Very well read. May have significant wear and tear and contain notes & highlighting. Good - Usual signs of a well read book but good overall condition.

The House in Dormer Forest (July 1920). Seven For A Secret; a love story (October 1922)  . Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 17 October 2007.

In the depths of Dormer Forest, nestling in a valley, lies Dormer Old House, inhabited by the Drake family, Solomon and Rachael with their four grown children: intense, idealistic Jasper, Ruby, pretty but silly.

Mary Webb (1881-1927) was an English romantic novelist of the early 20th century, whose novels were set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and among Shropshire characters and people which she knew and loved well. Although she was acclaimed by John Buchan and by Rebecca West, who hailed her as a genius, and won the Prix Femina of La Vie Heureuse for Precious Bane (1924), she won little respect from the general public