{"product_id":"2940160408507","title":"The Stars in Their Courses: An astrology obsessed mother and her spinster sister meddle her daughters affairs","description":"Mary Cholmondeley was born in Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire on June 8th 1859, the\u003cp\u003ethird of eight children. Her father was appointed rector in 1874 in succession to his father. Much of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe first 30 years of her life was taken up with helping her sickly mother run the household and her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efather with parish work, and she herself suffered with asthma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary began writing with in her teens. She wrote in her journal in 1877, \"What a pleasure and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einterest it would be to me in life to write books. I must strike out a line of some kind, and if I do not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emarry (for at best that is hardly likely, as I possess neither beauty nor charms) I should want some\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edefinite occupation, besides the home duties.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary began by publishing some stories in The Graphic and her first novel `The Danvers Jewels' a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edetective story followed in 1887. It was followed by Sir Charles Danvers (1889), Diana Tempest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(1893).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her father retired in 1896, she moved with him and her sister Diana to Condover Hall before\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eselling it to move to Albert Gate Mansions in Knightsbridge, London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary wrote the best seller `Red Pottage' in 1899. It satirised religious hypocrisy and the conceit of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecountry life. It was denounced as immoral. It also explored female sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the war she did clerical work in the Carlton House Terrace Hospital. The sisters moved in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1919 to 4 Argyll Road, Kensington, where Mary died, unmarried, on 15th July 1925.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Copyright Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46497617707249,"sku":"2940160408507","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940160408507_p0.jpg?v=1764910744","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940160408507","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}