Myrna May Combellack is a Cornish [1] [2] academic researcher and writer of the Institute of Cornish Studies (in the Charles Thomas era), translator of Beunans Meriasek [3] and author of several works of fiction.
Early life
She graduated in English from the University of York in 1971. [4]
Doctoral thesis
"A Critical Edition of Beunans Meriasek" ( PhD thesis, University of Exeter, 1985)
Publications
Academic work
- 1974: A Survey of Musical Activities in Cornwall (Series: Special reports; no.1). Redruth: Institute of Cornish Studies ISBN 0-903686-05-8
- 1988: The Camborne Play. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran ISBN 1-85022-039-5 (translation in verse of Beunans Meriasek)
Fiction
- 1989: The Playing Place. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran ISBN 1-85022-041-7 (novel)
- 2002: A Fine Place: the Cornish estate. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-0-3
- 2003: The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-1-1 [5]
- 2004: Cuts in the Face: stories from Cornwall. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-2-X
- 2005: The Mistress of Grammar [and] Niobe's Tears. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-3-8 (novella and short story; "Niobe's tears" was first published in The new quarterly cave; v. 2, no. 4, 1977)
- 2007: A Place to Stay: the Cornish bypass (Playing Place series). Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-4-6
References and notes
- ^ Kent, Alan (1998). 'Wives, Sisters and Mothers': Feminism, Literature and Women Writers in Cornwall. Penzance, Cornwall: The Patten Press. p. 40. ISBN 1872229336.
- ^ Kent, Alan (2013). Towards a Cornish Philosophy: Values, Thought, and Language for the West Britons in the Twenty-First Century. Evertype. p. 63. ISBN 9781782010456.
- ^ Life of Saint Meriasek.
- ^ Univ. of York Graduate search website. Archived 6 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van is reviewed at abrax7 Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century English novelists
- Alumni of the University of York
- Novelists from Cornwall
- English women novelists
- Vassar College alumni
- 21st-century English women writers
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Myrna May Combellack is a Cornish [1] [2] academic researcher and writer of the Institute of Cornish Studies (in the Charles Thomas era), translator of Beunans Meriasek [3] and author of several works of fiction.
Early life
She graduated in English from the University of York in 1971. [4]
Doctoral thesis
"A Critical Edition of Beunans Meriasek" ( PhD thesis, University of Exeter, 1985)
Publications
Academic work
- 1974: A Survey of Musical Activities in Cornwall (Series: Special reports; no.1). Redruth: Institute of Cornish Studies ISBN 0-903686-05-8
- 1988: The Camborne Play. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran ISBN 1-85022-039-5 (translation in verse of Beunans Meriasek)
Fiction
- 1989: The Playing Place. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran ISBN 1-85022-041-7 (novel)
- 2002: A Fine Place: the Cornish estate. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-0-3
- 2003: The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-1-1 [5]
- 2004: Cuts in the Face: stories from Cornwall. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-2-X
- 2005: The Mistress of Grammar [and] Niobe's Tears. Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-3-8 (novella and short story; "Niobe's tears" was first published in The new quarterly cave; v. 2, no. 4, 1977)
- 2007: A Place to Stay: the Cornish bypass (Playing Place series). Cornish Fiction ISBN 0-9541918-4-6
References and notes
- ^ Kent, Alan (1998). 'Wives, Sisters and Mothers': Feminism, Literature and Women Writers in Cornwall. Penzance, Cornwall: The Patten Press. p. 40. ISBN 1872229336.
- ^ Kent, Alan (2013). Towards a Cornish Philosophy: Values, Thought, and Language for the West Britons in the Twenty-First Century. Evertype. p. 63. ISBN 9781782010456.
- ^ Life of Saint Meriasek.
- ^ Univ. of York Graduate search website. Archived 6 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van is reviewed at abrax7 Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
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| This biography article of a United Kingdom academic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
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| This Cornwall article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- Education in Cornwall
- Academics of the University of Exeter
- Living people
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century English novelists
- Alumni of the University of York
- Novelists from Cornwall
- English women novelists
- Vassar College alumni
- 21st-century English women writers
- 20th-century English women writers
- British academic biography stubs
- Cornwall stubs