Bladys of the Stewponey

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - General Fiction, Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Authors: Sabine Baring-Gould In Year : 1897

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Bladys of the Stewponey

Chapter 01 - Oyez!
Chapter 02 - In the Cellar
Chapter 03 - Crispin
Chapter 04 - The Bowling Green
Chapter 05 - The Jack
Chapter 06 - A Mad Wedding
Chapter 07 - Stand! Deliver!
Chapter 08 - The Rock Tavern
Chapter 09 - Nan
Chapter 10 - Castle Foregate
Chapter 11 - A White Devil
Chapter 12 - Petty Treason
Chapter 13 - The Last in England
Chapter 14 - A Challenge
Chapter 15 - Vashti
Chapter 16 - Drie
Chapter 17 - Kynaston's Cave
Chapter 18 - A Crooked Finger
Chapter 19 - A Second Flight
Chapter 20 - The Tally Stick
Chapter 21 - A Protector
Chapter 22 - Holy Austin Rock
Chapter 23 - Meg-A-Fox Hole
Chapter 24 - At The Rock Foot
Chapter 25 - Nan, Farewell!
Chapter 26 - The Crooked Finger Again
Appendix - Burning for Petty Treason

The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and a number of other well-known hymns, are all accurate, or at least as accurate as local lore will allow. Kinver has long been a midlands beauty spot, and the UK National Trust own and open one of the rock-dwellings mentioned. The 'Stewponey' too was an inn until a year or two into the twenty-first century: http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/Reminder-of-the-heyday-of-the-old-Stewponey-2.htm - the present reader having stopped there for a drink and a meal many times.

The story, whether you call it a romance, a historical novel or a horror story - comprising as it does a young woman being offered as a prize in a bowling match, a wife-burning, highwaymen and buried treasure - is of course wholly fiction. (Introduction by AJM)