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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
Philip Payton is Professor of Cornish Studies and Director of the institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter. He edits the series Cornish Studies, published by UEP, and is author of numerous books and articles.
‘…this proved to be a very balanced evaluation and explanation of
Rowse’s relationship with his native people and place.’
‘This is an excellent biography which is highly readable and well
worth the effort. It does throw new light on the man and his place
amongst Cornish letters and, despite all the negatives and
contradictions, recognises Rowse’s claim to be, if not necessarily
the greatest, certainly a very great Cornishman.’ (Cornwall
Association of Local Historians Journal, No 50, Autumn 2005)
‘This extremely readable book attempts to set the record straight
about one of Cornwall’s most famous sons. (…) Among the new
material that Professor Payton has unearthed in the Rowse archive
at Exeter University there is much on Rowse’s contribution to the
study of local history and Cornish nationalism.’
‘Payton has achieved an enviable synthesis and fusion in this
sympathetic but fair biography of a paradoxical patriot.’ (The
Local Historian, Volume 35, No 4, November 2005)
‘It looks beyond the conventional four nations at all the groups in
our islands, and focuses on local history and what was hidden from
many national historians. His chapter ‘All the Island Peoples’ is
particularly interesting in analyzing the latest positions on this
approach, with appropriate side-glances to Rowse and to Cornwall.’
‘This is really a stimulating book which ranges far beyond what
might be taken as a restrictive title.’ (History Today, February
2008)
‘This comprehensive exploration of Rowse’s life is a must for any
bookshelf dedicated to Cornish culture.’ (Cornwall Today, February
2008)
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