Meg of the Salt-Pans 

May Aldington 

Meg of the Salt-Pans 

c. 1909

Manuscript

This is an autograph fair copy of the third of May Aldington’s six novels, written in “school” exercise books. The novel was published in 1909 by Everett & Co., London. In its June 1909 issue, The Westminster Review said, “…May Aldington has succeeded in doing for a corner of rural Kent that which Thomas Hardy has done for his beloved Wessex…” 

From the Collection of Simon Hewett