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Introduction Mary Meredith, the author of Precious Bane, was born in the little village of Leighton, near Gressage, under the Wrekin, on March 25th, 1881, and died at St. Leonards, October 8th, 1927, and was buried at Shrewsbury. She was the daughter of George Edward Meredith, a schoolmaster of...