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Chase was initially welcoming to devotees of her work to her home at Venton, where she was happy to show them round and sell them signed copies of her books, but in later life she tired of them and erected notices on her property ordering "trippers" not to call. The popularity of her fiction declined
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Since the second half of the 20th century, Chase's writing style has been seen as outdated and her novels have been described as containing "cardboard characters move stiffly through stereotypical scenes ... uttering trite phrases of deplorable sentimentality". However, her descriptions of life on
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She was often to be seen sitting at her writing desk, beside her favourite window which provided the titles for three of her books. Here she wrote many novels and also poetry. Her passion for
Dartmoor is evident in her writing and she was often referred to as 'My Lady of the Moor' following the
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During the First World War, Chase formed a "Crusade for Moral Living" which attracted a large following. Soldiers in the trenches and their wives or fiancées at home would write to Chase at Venton, pledging to be "true to honour". In return, Chase prayed for their souls in her small chapel. She
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Infirmary on 3 July 1955 and was buried in the churchyard at
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Katherine Parr in 1915. They rented out the farm and its outbuildings, but retained a cottage in which they lived, and built an adjacent Roman Catholic chapel which was licensed as a public oratory by
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in 1874. Her father, Charles Parr, apparently died when she was young, and her mother was a lapsed
Catholic. Both Olive and her younger sister Hilda were educated at the Convent of the Holy Child in
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as a person in need of care and attention. Locals tell a story that she was taken to hospital in a straitjacket, but only after the loaded revolver she kept by her bed was removed.
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I am thinking to-night, of all you who are on the wrong side of my hills. I ache, with a longing which is absolute pain, to draw you all into this old-world haven of peace.
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