Women Writing on the Devon Land: A County's Women Who Wrote - circa 1965

Edith Dart’s Writing Crediton Church Christmas Tree Festival 2022. 'She heard one voice between her chants, from matins to compline. It sang not canticle nor psalm. It drowned the Mass divine. "Can there be sin in Christendom, Mother of God, as mine?" From 'A Sin' in Earth with its Bars & Other Poems , by Edith Dart Contexts; Fiction and Poetry      Edith Dart published short stories, novels and poetry. Her work also appeared in a wide variety of contemporary journals and anthologies. There’s also a scattering of reviews about her work published in various contemporary papers and journals. Remembered especially for her novel Sareel which was apparently made into a film (but unfortunately as yet I’ve not found any reference to it) according to her friend Mary Patricia Willcocks Edith apparently gained national recognition for several of her books and for her poetry. As yet I’ve only had the opportunity to read one or two of Edith’s short stories printed in jou...

  Remembering Edith Dart, Crediton’s Edwardian Novelist and Poet; As a novelist in “Miriam,” in “Likeness,” in “Rebecca Drew,” and especially in “Sareel,” Devon lives again' (Quotation from Obituary for Edith Dart by Mary Patricia Willcocks) The Grand Affair General Buller's Return to Crediton 1900 I am grateful to staff at Crediton Museum for locating the image. ‘Miss Edith Dart, attired in a costume of purple tweed with longer black picture hat presented Lady Audrey Buller with a magnificent shower bouquet with red, white and blue favours’. (The Scotsman 2 November 1900). General Buller's Return to Crediton 1900 I am grateful to staff at Crediton Museum for locating this image.        As far as I’m aware the vivid depiction in the passage above picturing  the young writer and  Crediton born woman who, at the time the article from which this quote was written and published in The Scotsman, 2nd November 1900, was about 27, is the only extant descriptio...