MARY
WEBB
POET & NOVELIST
LIVED HERE

1912 - 1914

Born Mary Gladys Meredith, she was raised in Shropshire and became famous as an early 20th-century English romantic novelist and poet whose work is set chiefly in her home county’s countryside.

In 1912 she married Henry Webb and they lived in Landemann Circus for two years before moving back to Shropshire, working as market gardeners.

Publication of “The Golden Arrow” established her as a rising literary star but poor health and a failing marriage brought terminal decline, and she died in loneliness at St. Leonard-onSea.