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Suggested reading:
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

GENERAL
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel Hahn and Nicholas Robins, The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland<\/em>. Oxford University Press, Third Edition, 2008.<\/p>\n

Margaret Drabble and Jorge Lewinski, A Writer’s Britain: Landscape in Literature. <\/em>Thames and Hudson, 1979.<\/p>\n

GROUP BIOGRAPHIES, ESSAYS, ANTHOLOGIES, ETC.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Betjeman, Coming Home:\u00a0 An anthology of his prose, 1920 – 1977, <\/em>ed. by Candida Lycett Green. Methuen, 1997.<\/p>\n

Geoff Dyer, The Missing of the Somme. <\/em>Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1994.<\/p>\n

Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys. <\/em>Oxford University Press, 1992.<\/p>\n

Todd Gray, Remarkable Women of Devon. <\/em>The Mint Press, 2009.<\/p>\n

Daisy Hay, Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and other Tangled Lives. <\/em>Bloomsbury, 2010.<\/p>\n

Alethea Hayter, A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846. <\/em>Robin Clark Limited, 1992.<\/p>\n

Stephen Hebron, The Romantics and the British Landscape<\/em>. The British Library, 2006.<\/p>\n

Richard Holmes, The Romantic Poets and Their Circle. <\/em>National Portrait Gallery, 2005.<\/p>\n

Kathleen Jones, A Passionate Sisterhood: The sisters, wives and daughters of the Lake Poets.<\/em> Constable, 1997.<\/p>\n

Regina Marler, Bloomsbury Pie: the Story of the Bloomsbury Revival.<\/em> Virago, 1997.<\/p>\n

Peter Redrove (editor). Cornwall in Verse. <\/em>Penguin, 1983.<\/p>\n

William St Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family. <\/em>Faber and Faber Limited, 1989.<\/p>\n

Edward John Trelawny, Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author. <\/em>Penguin 1973.<\/p>\n

Simon Trezise, The West Country as a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in its Place. <\/em>University of Exeter Press, 2000.<\/p>\n

Michael Williams, Following the Famous in Cornwall. <\/em>Bossiney Books.<\/p>\n

W. H Kearley Wright, West Country Poets: Their Lives and Works. <\/em>Elliot Stock, 1896.<\/p>\n

INDIVIDUAL WRITERS
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jane Austen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen: A Life.<\/em> Penguin, 2000.<\/p>\n

Caroline Sanderson, A Rambling Fancy: In the Footsteps of Jane Austen. <\/em>Cadogan Guides, 2006.<\/p>\n

Sabine Baring-Gould<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Dartmoor. <\/em>Wildwood House, 1982.<\/p>\n

Sabine Baring-Gould, Early Reminiscences: 1834 – 1864. <\/em>John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1924.<\/p>\n

Sabine Baring-Gould, Devonshire Characters and Strange Events. <\/em>John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1908.<\/p>\n

Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes. <\/em>Kessinger Publishing.<\/p>\n

Sabine Baring-Gould, Red Spider. <\/em>Nonsuch Classics, 2007.<\/p>\n

Bickford H. C. Dickinson, Sabine Baring-Gould: Squarson, Writer & Folklorist 1834 \u2013 1924. <\/em>David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1970.<\/p>\n

William Purcell, Onward Christian Soldier: a Life of Sabine Baring-Gould<\/em>, Parson, Squire, Novelist, Antiquary, 1834 \u2013 1924.<\/em> (With an Introduction by John Betjeman.) Longmans, Green and Co., 1957.<\/p>\n

Keth Lister, ‘Half my Life’: The Story of Sabine Baring-Gould and Grace. <\/em>Charnwood Publications, 2002.<\/p>\n

Gerald Brenan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gerald Brenan, South From Granada. <\/em>Penguin, 1963.<\/p>\n

Gerald Brenan, Personal Record: 1920 – 1972.<\/em> Knopf, 1975.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Gerald Brenan: The Interior Castle. <\/em>Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/strong><\/p>\n

Margaret Forster, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. <\/em>Vintage, 1998.<\/p>\n

Frances Burney<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frances Burney, Journals and Letters. <\/em>Penguin, 2001.<\/p>\n

Hester Davenport, Faithful Handmaid: Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III. <\/em>Sutton Publishing, 2000.<\/p>\n

Kate Chisholm, Fanny Burney: Her Life, 1752 – 1840. <\/em>Vintage, 1999.<\/p>\n

George Gordon Byron<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fiona MacCarthy, Byron: Life and Legend. <\/em>John Murray, 2002.<\/p>\n

Dora Carrington<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Garnett, ed., Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries.<\/em> Oxford University Press, 1979.<\/p>\n

Gretchen Gerzina, Carrington: a Life of Dora Carrington, 1893 – 1932.<\/em> Pimlico, 1995.<\/p>\n

Jane Hill, The Art of Dora Carrington.<\/em> The Herbert Press, 2000.<\/p>\n

Ronald Blythe, First Friends: Paul and Bunty, John and Christine – and Carrington.<\/em> Viking 1999.<\/p>\n

David Boyd Hancock, A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War. <\/em>Old Street Publishing Limited, 2009.<\/p>\n

Charles Causley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles Causley, Hands to Dance and Skylark. <\/em>Anthony Mott Ltd, 1979.<\/p>\n

Harry Chambers, ed., Causley at 70. <\/em>Peterloo Poets, 1987.<\/p>\n

Bruce Chatwin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruce Chatwin, On The Black Hill. <\/em>Picador, 1983.<\/p>\n

John Clare<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography. <\/em>Picador, 2003.<\/p>\n

John Clare, John Clare by Himself,<\/em> ed. by Eric Robinson and David Powell. <\/em>Carcanet. 2002.<\/p>\n

Hugh Lupton, The Ballad of John Clare. <\/em>Dedalus, 2010.<\/p>\n

Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions. <\/em>Hodder & Stoughton, 1989.<\/p>\n

Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections. <\/em>Harper Collins, 1998.<\/p>\n

Charles Dickens<\/strong><\/p>\n

Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens. <\/em>Penguin 1991.<\/p>\n

Daphne du Maurier<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daphne du Maurier, Vanishing Cornwall. <\/em>Penguin Books, 1974.<\/p>\n

Daphne du Maurier, Four Great Cornish Novels: Jamaica Inn, Rebecca, Frenchman’s Creek and My Cousin Rachel. <\/em>Victor Gollancz Limited, 1978.<\/p>\n

Daphne du Maurier, The King’s General. <\/em>Virago, 2009.<\/p>\n

Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand. <\/em>Virago, 2009.<\/p>\n

Bret Hawthorne, Daphne du Maurier’s Cornwall. <\/em>Halsgrove, 2010.<\/p>\n

Margaret Forster, Daphne du Maurier. <\/em>Chatto & Windus, 1993.<\/p>\n

Ronald Duncan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ronald Duncan, Collected Poems,<\/em> ed. by Miranda Weston-Smith. <\/em>Heineman\/Quixote Press, 1981.<\/p>\n

Ronald Duncan, Man: The Complete Cantos. <\/em>Rebel Press, 1970.<\/p>\n

Ronald Duncan, Journal of a Husbandman. <\/em>Faber and Faber, 1944.<\/p>\n

Ronald Duncan, Where I Live. <\/em>The Country Book Club, 1954.<\/p>\n

Ronald Duncan, Devon and Cornwall. <\/em>Batsford, 1966.<\/p>\n

Ronald Duncan, All Men Are Islands. <\/em>Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964.<\/p>\n

Ronald Duncan, How To Make Enemies. <\/em>Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968.<\/p>\n

Ronald Duncan, Obsessed: A Third Volume of Autobiography. <\/em>Michael Joseph, 1977.<\/p>\n

Ronald Duncan, Collected Plays. <\/em>Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971.<\/p>\n

Ronald Duncan (editor), The Writings of Gandhi. <\/em>Fontana, 1983.<\/p>\n

Harold Lockyear (editor), A Tribute to Ronald Duncan by his friends. <\/em>The Harton Press, 1974.<\/p>\n

Krysia Cairns, Ronald Duncan: the man and the artist. <\/em>University of Plymouth, 1998.<\/p>\n

‘A Tribute to Ronald Duncan’, Agenda<\/em> Vol. 38 Nos. 1-2. Edited by William Cookson. Agenda and Editions Charitable Trust, 2001.<\/p>\n

Edmund Gosse<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edmund Gosse, Father and Son. <\/em>Penguin, 1989.<\/p>\n

Harry Buxton Forman<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Collins, The Two Forgers: A Biography of Harry Buxton Forman & Thomas James Wise. <\/em>Scolar Press, 1992.<\/p>\n

Thomas Hardy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man. <\/em>Viking, 2006.<\/p>\n

Robert Stephen Hawker<\/strong><\/p>\n

R. S. Hawker, ed., C. E. Byles, Cornish Ballads and Other Poems.<\/em> John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1904, 1908.<\/p>\n

R. S. Hawker, ed., Piers Brendon, Hawker\u2019s Cornish Ballads.<\/em> Elephant Press, 1975.<\/p>\n

R. S. Hawker, ed., C. E. Byles, Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall. <\/em>John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1903.<\/p>\n

Piers Brendon, Hawker of Morwenstow: Portrait of a Victorian Eccentric. <\/em>(With a Foreword by John Fowles). Pimlico, 2002.<\/p>\n

C. E. Byles, The Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker (sometime Vicar of Morwenstow). <\/em>John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1905.<\/p>\n

Patrick Hutton, I Would Not Be Forgotten: The Life and Work of Robert Stephen Hawker. <\/em>Tabb House, 2004.<\/p>\n

Michael Williams, Hawker’s Morwenstow. <\/em>Bossiney Books, 1988.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Hooker<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jeremy Hooker, Welsh Journal. <\/em>Seren, 2001.<\/p>\n

David Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonathan Miles, Eric Gill & David Jones at Capel-Y-Ffin. <\/em>Seren, 1992.<\/p>\n

John Keats<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aileen Ward, John Keats: The Making of a Poet. <\/em>Secker & Warburg, 1963.<\/p>\n

Robert Gittings, John Keats. <\/em>Heinemann, 1968.<\/p>\n

Andrew Motion, <\/strong>Keats. <\/em>Faber and Faber, 1997.<\/p>\n

Robert Woof and Stephen Hebron, John Keats.<\/em> The Wordsworth Trust 1995.<\/p>\n

Francis Kilvert<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Maber and Angela Tregoning, ed., Kilvert’s Cornish Diary: Journal No. 4, 1870. From July 19th to August 6th, Cornwall.<\/em> Alison Hodge, 1989.<\/p>\n

William Plomer, ed., Kilvert’s Diary, 1870 – 1879.<\/em> Penguin, 1977.<\/p>\n

Charles Kingsley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Susan Chitty, Charles Kingsley\u2019s Landscape.<\/em> David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1976.<\/p>\n

Susan Chitty, The Beast and the Monk: a Life of Charles Kingsley.<\/em> Hodder and Stoughton, 1974.<\/p>\n

D. H. Lawrence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence. <\/em>Abacus, 2008.<\/p>\n

John Worthen, D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider. <\/em>Penguin, 2006.<\/p>\n

Keith Sagar, The Life of D. H. Lawrence: An Illustrated Biography. <\/em>Methuen, 1980.<\/p>\n

Katherine Mansfield<\/strong><\/p>\n

Claire Tomalin, Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life. <\/em>Penguin, 1988.<\/p>\n

Wilfred Owen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dominic Hibberd, Wilfred Owen: A New Biography. <\/em>Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 2002.<\/p>\n

Samuel Pepys<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Latham, ed., The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary<\/em>. Bell & Hyman Limited, 1982.<\/p>\n

Ferdinand Mount, Jem (And Sam): A Revenger’s Tale<\/em>. Vintage, 1999.<\/p>\n

Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Holmes, Shelley the Pursuit. <\/em>Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974.<\/p>\n

Reverend John Skinner<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Skinner, Journal of a Somerset Rector, 1822-1832.<\/em> Edited by Howard Coombs and The Rev. Arthur N. Bax. John Murray, 1930.<\/p>\n

John Skinner, Journal of a Somerset Rector, 1803-1834.<\/em> With an essay by Virgina Woolf. Edited by Howard and Peter Coombs. Oxford University Press, 1984.<\/p>\n

John Skinner, West Country Tour, being the Diary of a Tour through the Counties of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall in 1797.<\/em> Edited and introduced by Roger Jones. Ex Libris Press, 1985.<\/p>\n

Gillian Garnham, The Good Man of Camerton. <\/em>Biscuit Publishing Ltd, 2009. (This is a novel about Skinner, not a biography.)<\/p>\n

Robert Louis Stevenson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ernest Mehew ed., Selected Letters<\/em> of Robert Louis Stevenson<\/em>. Yale University Press, 1997.<\/p>\n

Lytton Strachey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul Levy, ed., The Letters of Lytton Strachey.<\/em> Viking 2005.<\/p>\n

Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey: the New Biography.<\/em> Vintage, 1995.<\/p>\n

R. S. Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Byron Rogers, The Man Who Went Into The West. <\/em>Aurum, 2006.<\/p>\n

J. R. R. Tolkien
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mathew Lyons, There and Back Again: in the footsteps of J. R. R. Tolkien. <\/em>Cadogan Guides, 2004.<\/p>\n

Henry Williamson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brocard Sewell, ed., Henry Williamson: The Man, The Writings. <\/em>Tabb House, 1980.<\/p>\n

Colin Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colin Wilson, Dreaming To Some Purpose: an autobiography. <\/em>Century, 2004.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gamel Woolsey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gamel Woolsey, The Collected Poems of Gamel Woolsey.<\/em> Warren House Press, 1984.<\/p>\n

Gamel Woolsey, One Way of Love. <\/em>Virago, 1987.<\/p>\n

Dorothy Wordsworth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dorothy Wordworth, The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals<\/em>. Oxford University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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