Born of a domineering but remote father, who was periodically imprisoned for debt; but an exceptional mother who devoted as much time to her daughters as to her sons; hatred of the family by the parishioners of her childhood village; intimidation by the residents of Epworth; a documented poltergeist in the rectory which was her childhood home; two homes destroyed by arson; an uncle who made a fortune in India and then lost it and who came into contact with a Cornish pirate; the early death of half her siblings and the near death by fire of her youngest brother; the disability from birth of one sister; a lack of food; insufficient clothing and warmth; a fabled family fortune; elopement and abandonment; ejection from the family home and ostracism by the family; an unhappy, forced, marriage; the early deaths of all her children, an exceptional poetic ability; ill health and an early death.
Born of a domineering but remote father, who was periodically imprisoned for debt; but an exceptional mother who devoted as much time to her daughters as to her sons; hatred of the family by the parishioners of her childhood village; intimidation by the residents of Epworth; a documented poltergeist in the rectory which was her childhood home; two homes destroyed by arson; an uncle who made a fortune in India and then lost it and who came into contact with a Cornish pirate; the early death of half her siblings and the near death by fire of her youngest brother; the disability from birth of one sister; a lack of food; insufficient clothing and warmth; a fabled family fortune; elopement and abandonment; ejection from the family home and ostracism by the family; an unhappy, forced, marriage; the early deaths of all her children, an exceptional poetic ability; ill health and an early death.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...
This volume contains some of Q's most enchanting tales describing peoples' actions due to love:-- The quiet honeymoon of a young couple interrupted by anunexpected visitors (A Happy Voyage).- An...
This volume contains Q's fictionalised accounts of :-- The 1527 wreck of the, Portuguese treasure ship, Saint Andrew and the seizure of its cargo by local gentry.- The first ruler, First White Rajah,...
Tales of highway robbery terrified many of the Cornish to the extent that men travelling to London on business often wrote their wills as they believed they were unlikely to return safely.This volume...
Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter's best friend, Daphne du Maurier,Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q') was the pre - eminent Cornish writer of Victorian &Edwardian literature and found...
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