Gone to Earth

First edition
Author	Mary Webb
Language	English
Genre	Romantic drama
Publisher	Constable
Publication date	1917
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

Gone to Earth is a 1917 romance novel by the British writer Mary Webb. It was her second novel following her debut The Golden Arrow the previous year. It received positive reviews and Rebecca West described it as her book of the year. ^[1] It is set in Shropshire around Long Mynd and Wenlock Edge. In 1935 it was one of the first batch of Penguin Books published.

Contents

• Film adaptation
• References
• Bibliography

Film adaptation

In 1950 the novel was adapted into the film Gone to Earth directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and starring Jennifer Jones, David Farrar and Cyril Cusack. ^[2]

References

Bibliography

• Baldick, Chris. Literature of the 1920s: Writers Among the Ruins, Volume 3. Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• 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.
• Sutherland, John. Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives. Profile Books, 2011.

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