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The Mother

byEden Phillpotts

On the moor around Vixen Tor and the Walkham, a mother is brought to give evidence against her own son, a poacher, and to see him sent to prison. A short, hard novel of family and conscience, later made into a play and a 1916 silent film.

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Sources: Internet Archive (free scan). First-published year from the Devon & Exeter Institution bibliography; characters verified against the text.

Number 7 in Eden Phillpotts’s Dartmoor writing. See the Eden Phillpotts author page for the full list.

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Old books sometimes spell "Yellam" differently. Which of these is one of those spellings?

Yealm. It appears in 17 of the old books and papers in our research library, so the name has not always been written the way we write it now.

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