Romance Cholmondeley, Mary: Red Pottage. V1. 13-Apr-2013

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Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925)was born at Hodnet, Market Drayton, Shropshire, as the third of the eight children of Rev. Richard Hugh Cholmondeley (1827–1910) and his wife Emily Beaumont (1831–1893). Her great-uncle was the hymn-writing bishop Reginald Heber and her niece the writer Stella Benson. An uncle, Reginald Cholmondeley of Condover Hall, who was host to the American novelist Mark Twain on his visits to England. Her sister Hester (died 1892) wrote poetry and kept a journal, selections of both appearing in Mary's family memoir, Under One Roof (1918).

The satirical Red Pottage (1899) was a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic and continues to be reprinted occasionally It satirizes religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life, and was denounced from a London pulpit as immoral. It was equally sensational because it "explored 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 because she had sold the copyright.

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