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XI - Lady Mary

This volume commences with Q’s ghostly ‘Lady Mary’s Tale’ which is based on a traditional story of a headless carriage driver careering across Dartmoor accompanied by a wild dog.

It appears that Q based his tale on Sabine Baring-Gould’s recounting of Lady Mary’s life (also included in this volume) but the facts are rather different to the Cornish and Devonian ghostly tale and Baring-Gould’s recounting of Lady Mary tragic life is included after Q’s ghostly tale together with a romantic version of the tale by the famous and prolific Georgian novelist, Mrs. Anna Eliza Bray and a transcript of a talk presented to the Devonshire Association by Mrs. G. H. Radford in 1890. 

Q’s works of fiction can be categorised as adventure, romance or proto-feminist and he was very keen on ensuring we never forget the lives of maligned women and girls as demonstrated by his wonderful factional biography of Hetty Wesley, one of the sisters of John and Charles Wesley which is included in this series of  anthologies and collections.

Series I                      Series II                     

XI         Lady Mary


XII        Pirates!


XIII       Love

XIV       Scilly

XV        Escapades and Occasional Escapes

XVI       Hetty Wesley

XVII      Tales of The Civil War

XVIII     Spies

XIX       The Westcotes

XX        Harry Revel

 
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