Mary Webb
Mary Webb was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, who set all six of her novels in South Shropshire. The 1950 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger production of Webb's Gone to Earth was filmed in the area. In 1957 the local comprehensive school in Pontesbury was named in her honour.
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