Diana Tempest by Mary Cholmondeley follows Colonel Tempest and his son Archie as they journey to Overleigh to visit the Colonel’s dying brother. Haunted by past estrangements...

“Annette leaned against the low parapet and looked steadfastly at the water, so steadfastly that all the brilliant, newly-washed, tree-besprinkled city of Paris, lying...

Novelist Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) established her place in English letters at the turn of the last century with her wittily satiric novels of middle-class life. Easthope, an...

Mary Cholmondeley (8 June 1859 – 15 July 1925) was an English novelist. Her best-selling novel is  Red Pottage : in this work the writer narrates the love affair and...

Prisoners: Fast Bound in Misery and Iron by Mary Cholmondeley follows Fay, the Duchess of Colle Alto, a young Englishwoman living in Rome. Trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, she...

A Devotee: An Episode in the Life of a Butterfly by Mary Cholmondeley follows Sibyl Carruthers, a delicate young heiress whose intense emotions draw her toward Mr. Loftus, an...

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...

Novelist Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925), author of Red Pottage and Diana Tempest, writes of escaped criminals, desperate thieves, and the mysteries of a seemingly loving family, in...

Mary Cholmondeley (8 June 1859 – 15 July 1925) was an English novelist. Her best-selling novel, Red Pottage, satirised religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country...

Diana Tempest by Mary Cholmondeley follows Colonel Tempest and his son Archie as they journey to Overleigh to visit the Colonel’s dying brother. Haunted by past estrangements...