About Mary Cholmondeley
Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925) was an English novelist and short-story writer. The daughter of a vicar at St. Luke’s Church in the village of Hodnet, Market Drayton, Shropshire, England, Cholmondeley was exposed to the country and clergical life she would go on to satirize in her work. She spent most of her early life taking care of her sickly mother, but she went on to write over a twenty-four novels and dozens of short stories.