Mary Cholmondeley was an English novelist. Her bestseller Red Pottage satirised religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life. It was adapted as a silent film in 1918.
Cover of Prisoners, by Mary Cholmondeley, 1906
Hodnet is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The town of Market Drayton lies 5.7 miles north-east of the village. In 2011 the parish had a population of 1534.
Mary Cholmondeley
…Red Pottage satirised religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life. It was adapted as a silent film in 1918. Mary Cholmondeley was born at Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire, the third of eight children of Rev Richard Hugh Cholmondeley (1827–1910) and his wife Emily Beaumont (1831–1893…
Forner monumental portico standing as a Hodnet landmark
Sir Rowland Hill, who coordinated the Geneva Bible translation.
Sir Thomas Bromley who presided over the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots