The Portreeve

Set in the church-town of Bridestowe, beneath the moor's northern wing near Okehampton: the story of Orlando Wolferstan and his neighbours through the turning year. Phillpotts judged it harshly himself, inscribing a copy “This book is a failure. The action moves stiffly…”

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Sources: Internet Archive (free scan) · Presentation copy, Rooke Books (PBFA). First-published year from the Devon & Exeter Institution bibliography; characters verified against the text.

Number 5 in Eden Phillpotts’s Dartmoor writing. See the Eden Phillpotts author page for the full list.