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The article makes no mention of Shakespeare or his influence, (unless it has to do with Shropshire), so I'm not sure why she has a category tag for Shakespeare; any explanations?-- FeanorStar7 02:27, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I've removed this and the trivia section. The birds are Blue or Great Tits, which are one of the few species to lay as many as 14 eggs in one nest - as mentioned in Precious Bane. Mighty Antar 23:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Added a reference to Cold Comfort Farm, which probably helped to Doom (as in Aunt Ada) Webb's literary reputation. Interesting that a great director, Michael Powell, still made a ravishing film of Gone to Earth, as John Schlesinger, director of the TV version of Cold Comfort, did of a work by Gibbons' other target, Hardy: Far From the Madding Crowd. -- Straw Cat ( talk) 19:34, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Interesting that someone seems to be sensitive enough to the information about Cold Cold Farm to try to remove all reference. I hope that they will discuss it here, as it does no justice to Webb to pretend that it was not she was being parodied. If you refer to the article on Gibbons you will see that she worked on serializations of Webb's works including PB. Of course, if one could find a statement by Gibbons that CCF had nothing to do with Webb that might be persuasive, but I rather doubt there is one ... Straw Cat ( talk) 09:56, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
OK: source now added, straight, as it were, from the horse's mouth. I would add that IMHO all the writers Gibbons parodied including Mary are well able to stand up to her teasing. Straw Cat ( talk) 19:46, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Please could whoever keeps deleting the section on Gibbons discuss the issue on this page. Straw Cat ( talk) 11:59, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Mary Gladys Webb? http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Webb/138954 . 94.30.84.71 ( talk) 09:07, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
The school was opened in 1957 simply under the name of Pontesbury Secondary Modern School, although the cited source, a school website, appears to infer it was opened under the MWS name. It was only renamed the Mary Webb School during the years I was a pupil there (1970-76) but I cannot remember which year. It is now called the Mary Webb School and Science College. Cloptonson ( talk) 22:10, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
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The article makes no mention of Shakespeare or his influence, (unless it has to do with Shropshire), so I'm not sure why she has a category tag for Shakespeare; any explanations?-- FeanorStar7 02:27, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I've removed this and the trivia section. The birds are Blue or Great Tits, which are one of the few species to lay as many as 14 eggs in one nest - as mentioned in Precious Bane. Mighty Antar 23:55, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Added a reference to Cold Comfort Farm, which probably helped to Doom (as in Aunt Ada) Webb's literary reputation. Interesting that a great director, Michael Powell, still made a ravishing film of Gone to Earth, as John Schlesinger, director of the TV version of Cold Comfort, did of a work by Gibbons' other target, Hardy: Far From the Madding Crowd. -- Straw Cat ( talk) 19:34, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Interesting that someone seems to be sensitive enough to the information about Cold Cold Farm to try to remove all reference. I hope that they will discuss it here, as it does no justice to Webb to pretend that it was not she was being parodied. If you refer to the article on Gibbons you will see that she worked on serializations of Webb's works including PB. Of course, if one could find a statement by Gibbons that CCF had nothing to do with Webb that might be persuasive, but I rather doubt there is one ... Straw Cat ( talk) 09:56, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
OK: source now added, straight, as it were, from the horse's mouth. I would add that IMHO all the writers Gibbons parodied including Mary are well able to stand up to her teasing. Straw Cat ( talk) 19:46, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Please could whoever keeps deleting the section on Gibbons discuss the issue on this page. Straw Cat ( talk) 11:59, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Mary Gladys Webb? http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Webb/138954 . 94.30.84.71 ( talk) 09:07, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
The school was opened in 1957 simply under the name of Pontesbury Secondary Modern School, although the cited source, a school website, appears to infer it was opened under the MWS name. It was only renamed the Mary Webb School during the years I was a pupil there (1970-76) but I cannot remember which year. It is now called the Mary Webb School and Science College. Cloptonson ( talk) 22:10, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
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