Gone to Earth (Annotated)

Mary Gladys Meredith Webb's *Gone to Earth* (1917) is a richly atmospheric neo-romantic novel set in the border country of Shropshire, where human lives are inseparable from the rhythms and violence of the natural world. Its heroine, Hazel Woodus, is a passionate, socially marginal young woman whose intimacy with the countryside and her fox, Foxy, collides with the possessive demands of men and co...