to George Bentley. It was followed by Sir Charles Danvers (1889), Diana Tempest (1893) and A Devotee (1897). Bentley paid £40 for The Danvers Jewels and £50 for Sir Charles Danvers, both in two volumes, but increased an offer of £250 for the three-volume Diana Tempest to £400, the first of her books to appear under her name. The satirical Red Pottage (1899) sold well both sides of the Atlantic and is still reprinted. It satirises religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life, but was denounced from a London pulpit as immoral. It was equally sensational when exploring "the issues of female sexuality and vocation", recurring topics in late Victorian debates about the New Women. Despite the book's great success, however, the author received little money for it later as she had sold the copyright. A silent film, Red Pottage, was made in 1918. Diana Tempest was reissued in 2009 for the first time in a century. Later works such as Moth and Rust (1902) and Notwithstanding (1913) were less successful. The Lowest Rung (1908) and The Romance of his Life (1921) were story collections. The latter, her final book, was dedicated to the essayist and critic Percy Lubbock. Lubbock later commemorated her in Mary Cholmondeley: A Sketch from Memory (1928). Selected works References External links The full text of Red Pottage online: Retrieved 4 May 2012. Biography: Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton: Let the Flowers Go: A Life of Mary Cholmondeley (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009) Critical appraisals: Mary Cholmondeley Reconsidered eds: Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton and SueAnn Schatz (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009) Brief accounts of her main works Literary Heritage – West Midlands profile and e-texts of excerpts from her novels Jane Crisp Mary Cholmondeley - Victorian Fiction Research Guide 1859 births 1925 deaths People from Market Drayton English women novelists Victorian novelists Victorian women writers 19th-century British novelists 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers 19th-century English women writers 19th-century English writers 19th-century British writers