"Jamaica Inn (novel) Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called ""Jamaica Inn"", directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1820. It was inspired by du Maurier's 1930 stay at the real Jamaica Inn, which still exists and is a pub in the middle of Bodmin Moor. The plot follows a group of murderous wreckers who run ships aground, kill the sailors and steal the cargo. Mary Yellan, twenty years old, was brought up on a farm"
"the Cornish coast in the early 1800s, the shock causes Martha Yellan’s mental health to deteriorate. She plans to send her daughter Mary to stay with Martha’s sister Patience. Shortly thereafter, Martha dies. Mary leaves her home town of Helston. Patience has married Joss Merlyn, the innkeeper of Jamaica Inn, located on a lonely stretch of road in Bodmin Moor. Mary quickly finds out that Patience lives in fear of her husband, who turns violent when drunk and whose regular guests include ruffians and criminals. She also discovers that illegal activity is going on, with goods loaded on wagons at"
"lives in rural isolation with his young son. As Christopher Dryden points out to Gilly, her (and her mother's cousin's) name is that of a real witch, Geillis Duncane, who was tried in Edinburgh in the late 16th century during the North Berwick witch trials. Gilly's rival for the affections of Dryden, Agnes Sampson, shares a name with another woman tried at North Berwick. Thornyhold Thornyhold is a fantasy novel by Mary Stewart published in 1988. The story is about a lonely child, Geillis ""Gilly"" Ramsey, who is made to see the world through her mother's cousin's (also Geillis —"
"Cornwall after the First World War and built a house for herself and her mother on land at Minack Point for £100. Her sister was the feminist dystopian author Katharine Burdekin and her partner lived with them from the 1920s. In 1929, a local village group of players had staged Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" in a nearby meadow at Crean, repeating the production the next year. They decided that their next production would be ""The Tempest"" and Miss Cade offered the garden of her house as a suitable location, as it was beside the sea. Miss Cade and her"
"and housebound neighbor, a former college professor who arrived in Cornwall Coombe at the behest of his own wife, Maggie, who had been born in the village but was one of the few locals to leave and he returned with her after her parents died; Justin Hooke, who serves as the current year's ceremonial ""Harvest Lord"", and his wife Sophie, his ""Corn Maiden"" in the approaching ""Corn Play""; Worthy Pettinger, a young man who disdains the old ways and wants to go to agricultural college and, most important, Mary Fortune, an aged but quite active widowed herbalist and midwife, called"
"reminiscent of Richard Llewellyn's ""How Green Was My Valley"". The plot concerns the Welsh iron-making communities of Blaenavon and Nantyglo in the 19th century. The action is seen through the eyes of young Iestyn Mortymer who grows up in times of growing tensions between ironmasters and Trade Unionists. In 1826, when the book starts, Iestyn is eight years old and already beginning work at the Garndyrus furnaces near Blaenavon. His sister Morfydd has strong feelings about women and children working in mines and ironworks. She sympathises with the Chartist movement and condemns the action of the militant Scotch Cattle. In"
"a young person. Her best-known book, ""The Camomile Lawn"", set on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, was turned into a television series, and is an account of the intertwining lives of three families in rural England during World War II. After ""The Camomile Lawn"" (1984) came ""Harnessing Peacocks"" (1985 and as a TV film in 1992), ""The Vacillations of Poppy Carew"" (1986 and filmed in 1995), ""Not That Sort of Girl"" (1987), ""Second Fiddle"" (1988), ""A Sensible Life"" (1990), ""A Dubious Legacy"" (1992), ""An Imaginative Experience"" (1994) and ""Part of the Furniture"" (1997). A book about the West Country with"
"South Wales near Goulburn caused Franklin a great deal of distress and led her to withdrawing the novel from publication until after her death. Shortly after the publication of ""My Brilliant Career"", Franklin wrote a sequel, ""My Career Goes Bung,"" which would not be published until 1946. The heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, is an imaginative, headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia in the 1890s. Drought and a series of poor business decisions reduce her family to subsistence level, her father begins to drink excessively, and Sybylla struggles to deal with the monotony of her life. To her relief, she is"
"Weekend which takes place at the village recreational field and village hall. Mary Watson, born at Fiddlers' Green, near St Newlyn East, emigrated to Australia. She was 21 years old and had been married less than eighteen months when she died of thirst on No. 5 Island in the Howick Group off Cape Flattery in the north of Queensland, Australia, in 1881. St Newlyn East St Newlyn East () is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is approximately three miles (5 km) south of Newquay. The name St Newlyn East is locally abbreviated to"
"based on the stories of Katherine Mary O'Fallon Flannigan (1899-1954). According to her fictionalized account, in 1907 at age 16 O'Fallon travels to Calgary to visit her uncle and recover from pleurisy. There she meets and marries Mike Flannigan, a sergeant with the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, moving with him to isolated posts in the mountain and lake regions of British Columbia and northern Alberta (Lesser Slave Lake). In the novel the Flannigans' two children die of diphtheria, and they adopt three orphaned children. Feeling that her story should be made into a film, Flannigan went to Los Angeles in"
"also lost the use of his legs late in life due to disease. In her youth, Susan Burling (the character based on Mary Hallock Foote) was a promising writer and artist connected with some of the leading lights in New York culture. When she and Oliver Ward met and fell in love, she left the promise of New York to follow him, expecting to return. The contrast between her life in the American west of the second half of the 19th century to that of her best friend in New York is a constant thread through the novel. Lyman depicts"
"Dairy Queen (novel) Dairy Queen is a 2006 novel written by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. It received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association. The sequel is called The Off Season. And the next book is Front and Center. 15-year-old girl Darlene Joyce (D.J.) Schwenk lives on a farm in Red Bend, Wisconsin, where she and her family own a dairy farm. When D.J.'s father hurts his hip, leaving him unable to work, D.J. reluctantly leaves her high school's volleyball and basketball teams to fill in for him on the farm. In the process"
"and furniture. With her father dead, she must fight for survival and help her ailing mother and siblings escape Ireland for good. This story is a glimpse into the tragic events of the Great Hunger, the famine that devastated Ireland, forcing thousands of impoverished families to seek better livelihoods outside of their homeland. Greener Grass: The Famine Years Greener Grass, published in 2009, is the second novel of Canadian author Caroline Pignat. The story revolves around a 14-year-old girl, Kit Byrne, living during the Great Famine of 1847 in Ireland. The Byrne family faces imminent eviction when their landlord, Lord"
"of D. H. Lawrence. Sheila Kaye-Smith, often said to be one of the rural writers parodied by Gibbons in ""Cold Comfort Farm"", arguably gets her own back with a tongue-in-cheek reference to ""Cold Comfort Farm"" within a subplot of ""A Valiant Woman"" (1939), set in a rapidly modernising village. Upper middle-class teenager, Lucia, turns from writing charming rural poems to a great Urban Proletarian Novel: ""… all about people who aren't married going to bed in a Manchester slum and talking about the Means Test."" Her philistine grandmother is dismayed: she prefers ""cosy"" rural novels, and knows Lucia is ignorant"
"Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, ""The Yearling"", about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written long before the concept of young adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists. Marjorie Kinnan was born in 1896 in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ida May (née Traphagen) and"
"Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, ""The Yearling"", about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written long before the concept of young adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists. Marjorie Kinnan was born in 1896 in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ida May (née Traphagen) and"
"her husband Matilda feels left out and betrayed. She feels that her pride has been hurt and that she has been ridiculed throughout their entire marriage. As her neighbour, Mr Jones, says to Hugh: ""She is finding out more about him, liking him less, getting disillusioned..."". It is the sum of her anger and disillusionment that has conditioned Matilda toward suicide, not grief. Jumping the Queue Jumping the Queue (1983) is British novelist Mary Wesley´s first adult novel, published when the author was seventy years old. The story takes place mainly in Cornwall, England, and follows a middle aged widow's"
"dearly-loved mother often had to help her in her illness. She sold the book to the local publishers, Jarrold & Sons. The book broke records for sales and is the “sixth best seller in the English language."" By telling the story of a horse's life in the form of an autobiography and describing the world through the eyes of the horse, Anna Sewell broke new literary ground. Sewell died of hepatitis or tuberculosis on 25 April 1878, only five months after the novel was published, but she lived long enough to see its initial success. She was buried on 30"
"Dawn in Lyonesse Dawn in Lyonesse is a 1938 short novel by the US author Mary Ellen Chase, set in the UK county of Cornwall. In an introductory note the author explains that the quotations within the text are taken from various versions, both medieval and modern, of the Tristram romance. Ellen Pascoe, a working class Cornish woman of 33, had endured a difficult childhood: first in her father's small cottage in a village near Land's End; then in St Ives where she had helped gut and clean the fish brought back by the fishing fleet, helped by her close"
"had three daughters. To support the fatherless family, she wrote her first novel, ""Phyllis"". Soon after its favourable reception, she wrote ""Molly Bawn"", which became her best-known book. She married Thomas Henry Hungerford, of Cahirmore, in 1882, with whom she had two sons and one daughter. They lived at St. Brenda's, Bandon, County Cork. By contemporary accounts, she enjoyed country life and was an avid gardener. She rarely travelled far from home. She was one of the few women in Victorian times who was both a prolific author and mother of a sizeable family. She died at Bandon of typhoid"
"during the war. However, they find they are not readily accepted into their new society. The beginning or prologue of the story focuses on the young Jamaican girl, Hortense, who has three dreams: to marry her childhood companion Michael, to move to faraway England, and to become a teacher. The story then shifts to London, where we meet Queenie and Bernard. Queenie is a poor working-class girl from Yorkshire who longs for better things in her life than her family's pig farming business. An aunt in London takes Queenie in and employs her in a shop. When her aunt dies"
"the mountains, supposedly with the help of a mean housekeeper who abandons them. They are forced to work together and become a family, with Mary Jack becoming the reluctant ""adult"" while still trying to reclaim her own childhood. When the Road Ends When the Road Ends (1992) is a young-adult novel by Jean Thesman. Twelve-year-old Mary Jack is in the foster home of a conscientious but clueless Episcopal priest, Father Matt, and his selfish troubled wife Jill. Also in their care is the silent Jane, a seven-year-old girl who had been abused. The house becomes further troubled by the introduction"
"to children. One day, they meet a young woman who takes Marjorie from the beggar and adopts her. Six years later, Marjorie goes to a Southern farm, where she is a teacher for two little children. There, she meets a young soldier. Marjorie's Quest Marjorie's Quest is a sentimental children's novel about an orphan girl by Jeanie Gould, first published in 1872. The book inspired the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz to write his children's book ""In Desert and Wilderness"". The story takes place in the second part of the 1850s. At the beginning of the novel, recently orphaned ten-year-old Marjorie"
"by her father. She enjoyed a seemingly idyllic childhood in rural Devonshire, but was strongly affected by her father's death. She moved to London and worked in a munitions factory at the outbreak of World War I. Warner was friendly with a number of the ""Bright young things"" of the 1920s. Her first major success was the novel ""Lolly Willowes"". In 1923, she met T. F. Powys, whose writing influenced her own and whose work she in turn encouraged. It was at Powys' home that Warner, in 1930, first met Valentine Ackland, a young poet; the two women fell in"
"well-off, life at the manse was conservative, and the sisters' life was rather restricted. Their close relationship was of great importance to them, and continued for their entire lives. They were taught by governesses, including Annie Lorrain Smith before she trained as a botanist, listened to stories told by family, friends and servants, and started writing from an early age, both together and individually. They moved to Prestonpans with their mother after their father died in 1886, and Jane and Mary tried to help the family finances by writing, while their older sister Sarah (Mora) worked as a nurse. It"
"drives a long way past the inn in spite of her repeated demands that he stop. Instead, he drops her off near the home of the local squire and justice of the peace, Sir Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton). She meets him and requests the loan of a horse so she can go back to Jamaica Inn. Pengallan warns her not to go there. Nevertheless, Mary says she just came from Ireland, and as the orphaned niece of Joss's wife Patience (Marie Ney), she intends to live at Jamaica Inn. Unable to convince her to stay, Pengallan accompanies Mary to Jamaica"
"books are written in series. Rylant was born in Hopewell, West Virginia, the daughter of a U.S. Army veteran, John Tune Smith, and Leatrel Smith ""née"" Rylant. Rylant uses her mother's maiden name as her pen name. She spent her first four years in Illinois. Her parents separated when she was four years old, and she was sent to live with her mother's parents in Cool Ridge, West Virginia, while her mother attended nursing school and was able to visit her only a few times a year. Growing up in the Appalachian region of the U.S. during the 1960s, Rylant"
"Outsider"" (1956) and for ""The Mind Parasites"" (1967), lived in Gorran Haven, a small village on the southern Cornish coast. The writer D. M. Thomas was born in Redruth but lived and worked in Australia and the United States before returning to his native Cornwall. He has written novels, poetry, and other works, including translations from Russian. Thomas Hardy's drama ""The Queen of Cornwall"" (1923) is a version of the Tristan story; the second act of Richard Wagner's opera ""Tristan und Isolde"" takes place in Cornwall, as do Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas ""The Pirates of Penzance"" and ""Ruddigore"". A level"
"Jumping the Queue Jumping the Queue (1983) is British novelist Mary Wesley´s first adult novel, published when the author was seventy years old. The story takes place mainly in Cornwall, England, and follows a middle aged widow's struggle with guilt and self-reproach after the death of her husband and her determination to jump the queue – commit suicide. Mary Wesley had been writing most of her life and had had two children's books published when her husband died in 1970. The years that followed were unproductive and barren and Wesley was troubled by poverty and grief. However, by 1977 she"
"back at Taynuilt before long. Her romantic interlude in Saskatchewan was not found to have any link to her murder. In 1913 at the age of 51 Mary was living at the remote and inaccessible Northbank Cottage, an old farm situated beneath the precipitous red sandstone cliffs on the raised beach near Portencross with her sister Jessie and brother-in-law Alex. Alexander McLaren and his wife Jessie and Mary Gunn were not locals and had only moved in during the month of May 1913. Alexander had been a self-employed baker, a farmer and something of an evangelist. He was sixty at"
"in Helford. After her mother's death, Mary goes to live with her only surviving relative, her mother's sister, Patience Merlyn, in a coaching inn called Jamaica Inn. Patience's husband, Joss Merlyn, is a local bully, stands almost seven feet tall and is a drunk. On arriving at the gloomy and threatening inn, Mary finds her aunt in a ghost-like state under the thumb of the vicious Joss, and soon realises that something unusual is afoot at the inn, which has no guests and is never open to the public. She tries to squeeze the truth out of her uncle during"
"it has not been republished and is not available for online download. The novel tells the story of the heroine's remarkable life starting with her birth in the 1890s on a stormy night at her parents' house in the Cornwall countryside. She is home schooled by a governess, and then at age 15 sent for two years to a fashionable ""finishing school"" which her parents can only afford with considerable sacrifice, and which is designed to prepare girls from the upper strata of English society for the ""marriage market."" She is her parents' only child and feels entrapped by her"
"Helen (novel) Helen is a novel by Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849). It was written in 1834, late in the writer's life. ""Helen"" tells the story of a young orphan, Helen Stanley, whose guardian, Dean Stanley, has squandered his fortune and left Helen without means of support. She is forced to take up residence with the local vicar, whose wife is astonished that none of the Stanleys' aristocratic friends have offered a refuge to her. Eventually, however, the Davenant family returns from abroad and invite Helen to their daughter's new home, Clarendon Park. (Cecilia Davenant has just married General Clarendon.) Helen journeys"