Classic Reads: “Precious Bane” by Mary Webb

Recently I’ve had the opportunity to re-read some classic novels. One of these was Mary Webb’s Precious Bane, which was first published in 1924.

One aspect that struck me on this reading was what an essentially modern book Precious Bane is, for the following reasons:

it’s told in first person point of view, from the perspective of Prue Sarn, with no intrusions or interpolations from the author as “omniscient narrator”, so characteristic of fiction in this era;
. disability is a theme of the...