Cornish Studies Volume 19

The nineteenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

‘Cornish Studies’ has consistently - and successfully - sought to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.

The latest volume in this internationally acclaimed paperback series, Cornish Studies: Nineteen examines the Duchy of Cornwall in the medieval period and discusses the Cornish language (including its significance as an icon of contemporary Cornish identity), as well as critically evaluating the early Cornish-language revivalists and analysing the experiences of Cornish women in Cornwall’s nineteenth-century ‘Great Emigration’. There is also a  review of recent books on Californian mining towns in the 1930s and the ‘Anglican imagination’ of John Betjeman.

Contributions by
Stuart Dunmore, David Everett, Jonathan Howlett, Sharon Lowenna, Philip Payton, Carl Phillips, Robert Stansfield, Lesley Trotter, Charlotte White, Nicholas Williams and Derek R. Williams

Introduction

1 A Duchy officer and a gentleman: The career connections of Avery Cornburgh (d.1487)  R. E. Stansfield (University of Lancaster)

2 Some Cornish plurals Nicholas Williams (University College Dublin)

3 Xians via Yish? Language attitudes and cultural identities on Britain’s Celtic periphery  Stuart Dunmore (University of Edinburgh)

4 ‘I am answerable for the Cornish’: The genesis of the Revd Robert Williams’s Lexicon-Cornu Britannicum and the significance of the Peniarth Library’s Hengwrt Manuscripts in his later research  Derek R. Williams (Oswestry)

5 Charles Rogers’s ‘Vocabulary of the Cornish Language’, the Rylands Vocabulary, and gatherers of pre-‘Revival’ fragments Sharon Lowenna (Falmouth)

6  A ‘mystic message to the world’: Henry Jenner, W. Y. Evans-Wentz and the fairy-faith in ‘Celtic’ Cornwall Carl Phillips (University of Nottingham)

7  Henry Jenner and the British Museum David Everett (Camborne, Cornwall)

8  From a north Cornish pulpit: The sermon notes of Cyril Leslie-Jones, 1911–1919 Jonathan Howlett (Stirling, Scotland)

9  Desperate? Destitute? Deserted? Questioning perceptions of miners’ wives in Cornwall during the great migration, 1851–1891 Lesley Trotter (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter)

10 Cousins Jack and Jenny in Phyllis Somerville’s Not Only in Stone  Charlotte White (University of York)

11 Review Article: Diversity and Complexity in Twentieth-century Cornish Identities Philip Payton (Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter)

Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies in the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University’s Cornwall campus.  He is also the author of A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (UEP, 2005, paperback 2007), Making Moonta: The Invention of ‘Australia’s Little Cornwall’ (UEP, 2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: 'The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist' (UEP, 2010)and numerous other books on Cornwall and the Cornish.