10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORNISHWOMEN»
Discover the use of
Cornishwomen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Cornishwomen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Possibly the feminine nature seeks relief from the gloom of its unnatural
surroundings ; but it is certain that the Cornishwomen, beyond the average of
their sex, set their affections on cheap jewellery and gaudy finer-y. The credit-
giving pe lar, ...
2
The jubilee memoir of ... queen Victoria
At Truro, the youthful Prince of Wales, who is also Duke of Cornwall, was held up
in his father's arms, to be introduced to the Cornishmen and Cornishwomen, over
whom, he is one day, destined to reign. On the occasion of this tour, they made ...
... that we may yet see in it a full collection of all famous Cornishmen and
Cornishwomen, in every branch of life and of all times. Mr. R. G. Cheesman
proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Worth for his most edifying and gratifying lecture.
The Rev.
Cornwall Polytechnic Society,
1881
PENZANCE. VISITORS to Cornwall, and still more born Cornishmen and
Cornishwomen, must often ask themselves the question, ' Who were those
people after whom Cornish parishes are called, and from whom did they derive
their names ?
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch,
1899
5
Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and ...
An appeal to Cornishwomen. [Plymouthz Bowering & Co.,1 1914. 15(1) p. 12°.
BTZE p.v.34, no.5 De oorlog en de Ravesteyn, W. van. H0llandia-
Drukinternatioiiale. Baarn: kerij, 1915. 36 p. 4°. (Van rechts en links... Serie 2, no.
9.) BTZE p.v.48 ...
New York Public Library,
1915
But nativeborn Cornishmen and Cornishwomen still cling to what makesthem
unique— they're Cornishfirst, British second. The fledgling Cornish
independence movement has never really gotten anywhere, butthat doesn't
stoplocals from ...
7
England's Riviera: A Topographical and Archæological ...
... Cornishwomen, 67 ; gout at St. Ives, 295 ; " Market-Jew," 220 ; " nasty habit " of
smoking, 68 Hals, W., 23 — on iron spire at Spire Rock, 90 Halzaphron, 365
Hamley, Rev. James, description of old Cornish lady, 192 Hangman's Rock,
Scillies, ...
Beatrice was evidently burning a small gorse-bush as a signal to him, just as
Cornishmen of old — and Cornishwomen too — would light fires on stormy nights
to attract ships beating for harbour; but that 94 A Pixy in Petticoats.
Ernest George Henham,
1906
9
Pentowan; or The adventures of Gregory Goulden and Tobias ...
Mr Goulden and George offered some to the young ladies, who did not exhibit
any false delicacy or squeamishness, but drank the toast like "true
Cornishwomen," as the doctor said. The little awkwardness which was at first
exhibited by some ...
William Bentinck Forfar,
1859
... was as emotional as ever, her facile feelings only restrained at all by her
husband's rigid taciturnity, even as her high bosom was kept up by the stiff est of "
temberan busks" — a piece of wood which, like all self-respecting Cornishwomen
, ...
Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse,
1917