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The Parson fictionalized: a reprise.(Marjorie Bowen's 'Holy Mr. Herbert')

Even the most avid Herbertian would not ordinarily consider the cleric of Bemerton a figure apt to capture the American popular imagination. Lacking the dramatic tension of Jack-the-Rake/Donne-the-Divine's reputed polarities, Herbert might seem an especially unlikely choice to appeal to an audience of periodical fiction. Yet in 1910, Harper's Monthly Magazine published Marjorie Bowen's "'Holy Mr. Herbert,'" a short story featuring the humble poet-priest. Now almost a hundred years after its first appearance and over fifty years since its author's death, the story appears in a considerably different venue for a much different audience as it is reprinted for the readers of the ...

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