The Splendid Fairing

Edith Constance Holme was an English writer and playwright. She was born in Milnthorpe, Westmorland (now in Cumbria), the youngest of fourteen children. Her novels are set in the old county of Westmorland, where she lived most of her life. Many of Holme's works explore class relationships; true to Holme's writing, "The Splendid Fairing" focuses on the three-way relationships between landowners, tenant farmers and land agents (Holme's father and her husband were both land agents).