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This book explores Cornish mysteries from Georgian Cornwall. Folk lore and the supernatural. Skilful aunts and village doctresses. Cornish fugitives and missing persons. Real people from Cornwall's past.

This book explores relationships between historical individuals and Cornish legends. The Cornish folklorists. How the Brontës' novels were influenced by Cornish folk tales and other stories of their aunt Elizabeth Branwell. The women whose lives were affected by men on whom the legend of 'Cruel Coppinger' may have been based. When and how the Cornish woman Mary Broad's experiences were reinvented to create the legendary Mary Bryant. The choice...

Mary Ann Parker was the first European woman to publish a travel memoir of New South Wales. After travelling with her husband, Captain John Parker of HMS Gorgon. Mary Ann Parker's family origins are revealed here for the first time.

A new biography of Mary Broad. A documentary not a drama.

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More has been written about smugglers than merchants in eighteenth century Cornwall. Yet Cornish merchants led and organised Cornwall's eighteenth century trade including smuggling. This book places Cornwall's merchants in the context of their social and family relationships, commerce and credit, politics, communications, know-how, culture, and faiths. It is a story of women as well as men. It looks at Cornwall's participation in transatlantic...

This book tells the life story for the first time of the eighteenth-century Cornish mariner Captain Joseph Banfield. It includes a transcript of Joseph Banfield's memoir. Banfield's memoir can be compared with published writings of other transatlantic slave trade captains including abolitionists. Banfield also worked on whalers and a variety of merchant trading ships completing Atlantic and Mediterranean voyages in over forty years at sea. His...

Through a detailed history of the asylum at Ticehurst in Sussex, Charlotte MacKenzie explores the consumer revolution which stimulated the proliferation of madhouses in Britain during the nineteenth century.

This book reveals the history of the Ellis family in Cornwall through ten generations from Elizabethan times to the first world war. The earlier generations farmed in west Cornwall. Initially trading as victuallers and merchants the family later established the Helston and Hayle breweries. It is a useful reference source for family and local historians.

This local history outlines the origins and histories of the Ellis breweries at Helston and Hayle. It includes histories of Cornish 'locals' as many of the inns, pubs, and hotels associated with the Ellis breweries are in business today. It is a useful reference source for local and family historians.