A.L. Rowse And Cornwall (Web PDF) von Philip Payton

This gripping biographical study, published here for the first time in paperback, explores the immensely complicated relationship that existed between A.L. Rowse and his native Cornwall.

List of Illustrations

Preface

1 'This Was the Land of My Content': A Fitting Epitaph?

2 'No Wonder I Preferred Life at All Souls': Escaping a Cornish Childhood

3 'You're No Rowse': The Mount–Mabel–Montana

4 'She Made Me Detest the Very Nature of Women': A Mother's Legacy?

5 'A Deep Anxiety to Do His Best for Cornwall': Confronting the Politics of Paralysis

6 'Haunted by Cornwall': A Case of Mutual Rejection?

7 'Not Being English, Alas–But Hopelessly Cornish': Embracing Churchill's England

8 'The Biggest and Most Significant of Cornish Themes': America and the Great Emigration

9 'I Have Been "In Love" with Cornwall All My Life': Reclaiming the Cornish Past and Future

10 'Marooned on My Headland': Retirement, Isolation and Loneliness

11 'All the Island Peoples': Writing British and Cornish History

Conclusion: 'What Could I Not Have Done for Cornwall!'

Notes

Further Reading

Lost of the Principle Works by A.L. Rowse

Index