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This is a list of notable women, living and dead, from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in the United Kingdom.Notability is based on achievements that have had a verifiable impact or public output or participation in a significant event, in the fields of art, literature, business, industry, science, culture, sport, education, politics, war, philanthropy, medicine and a range of other topics.
The demonym of Cornwall is Cornish. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname if available. There is also a list of women in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly dedicated to the notable women of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Liz Fenwick (born 1963) is an American writer of commercial fiction, living in Cornwall, England.She has published nine novels and two novellas taking her inspiration from Cornwall's history and landscape, [1] [2] and in 2017 was named "the queen of the contemporary Cornish novel" [3] by The Guardian.
Bal maidens in traditional protective clothing, 1890. A bal maiden, from the Cornish language bal, a mine, and the English "maiden", a young or unmarried woman, was a female manual labourer working in the mining industries of Cornwall and western Devon, at the south-western extremity of Great Britain.
The Cornish people or Cornish (Cornish: Kernowyon, Old English: Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall [20] [21] and a recognised national minority in the United Kingdom, [22] which (like the Welsh and Bretons) can trace its roots to the ancient Britons who inhabited Great Britain from somewhere between the 11th and 7th centuries BC [citation needed] and ...
This is a list of writers in English and Cornish, who are associated with Cornwall and Cornish linguists (Cornish: Rol a skriforyon Kernewek). Not all of them are native Cornish people . Some Cornish writers have reached a high level of prominence, e.g. William Golding , who won the Nobel Prize for literature (in 1983), D. M. Thomas who won the ...
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Pentreath was born in Mousehole, Cornwall, and was baptised on 16 May 1692, [1] the second of six known children of fisherman Nicholas Pentreath and his second wife Jone Pentreath. [2] She later claimed that she could not speak a word of English until the age of 20. Whether or not this is correct, Cornish was her first language. [1]