University of Exeter Press

Cornish Studies Volume 8

    • 200 Pages


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







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




    1. Introduction

    2. "On my grave a marble stone" - early modern Cornish memorialization, Paul Cockerham

    3. Choosing the group - 19th-century non-mining Cornish in British Columbia, Dorothy Mindenhall

    4. Celt and Saxon - stereotypes and counter-stereotypes of the late Victorian period, Simon Trezise

    5. "No place for a woman" - gender at work in Cornwall's metalliferous mining industry, Sharron P. Schwartz

    6. "The best men in Shetland" - woman, gender and place in peripheral communities, Lyn Abrams

    7. "The breadwinners" - gender, locality and diversity in late Victorian and Edwardian Cornwall, Ronald Perry

    8. "If the vote is good for Jack, why not for Jill" - the Women's Suffrage Movement in Cornwall 1970-1914, Katherine Bradley

    9. "Play the game as men play it" - women in Cornish politics 1918-1922, Treve Crago

    10. "Bodmin man" - Peter Bessell and the Liberal revival, Garry Tregidga

    11. "In the eye of the sun" - the Cornish Gorseth and esoteric druidry, Amy Hale

    12. Literary tourism and the Daphne du Maurier festival, Graham Busby and Zoe Hambly

    13. In search of the "missing turn" - the spatial dimension and Cornish studues, Bernard Deacon

    Review Article

    13. Breaking the Chains and Forging New Links, Bernard Deacon

    Notes on Contributors



    Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish and 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 in Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot and numerous other books on Cornwall and the Cornish.