Red Pottage

Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) was an English novelist whose literary career emerged in the late Victorian era, a period notorious for its rigid social structures and gender constructs. Born on June 8, 1859, into a clerical family in Hodnet, Shropshire, she was the third of eight children. Cholmondeley's writing often scrutinized the societal and domestic roles imposed on women and the challenges t...