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Graham states in Poldark's Cornwall that the Bodmin Moor hamlet of Demelza, in the parish of St Wenn, was the inspiration for his character's first name. [a] In Poldark's Cornwall, Graham reveals that the name "Poldark" is a product of his imagination. He initially named the character after his friend, a chemist named Polgreen.
Children's books set in Cornwall (7 P) F. Films set in Cornwall (73 P) J. Jack the Giant Killer (7 P) N. Cornish novels (4 C, 3 P) Novels by Daphne du Maurier (14 P)
Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (née Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) [2] was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. [3] Early in her career she was published under the pen name Jane Fraser.
A New York Times bestseller, the book became an NBC mini-series in 1978 titled The Dark Secret of Harvest Home, which starred Bette Davis (as Mary Fortune) and David Ackroyd (as Nick Constantine). The miniseries was generally faithful to the plot of the book; however, the name of the protagonist was changed in the film from Ned Constantine to ...
A "Manderley Castle" features in one of the Anno Dracula books by Kim Newman. Danish film director Lars von Trier 's 2005 film Manderlay is set in a country estate with a large domestic staff. In Stephen King 's 1998 novel, Bag of Bones , "Manderley" is a semi-isolated lake house in Maine, identified with Sara Laughs, in the dreams of the main ...
In 2006 the book was made into a mini-series starring Vanessa Redgrave as Penelope Keeling. It was filmed in Cornwall with scenes shot at St Michael’s Mount, Lamorna, Port Isaac and Prideaux Place at Padstow, directed by Piers Haggard. Other cast members included Sebastian Koch, Maximilian Schell, Victoria Hamilton, and Stephanie Stumph. [7]
List of films set in the English county of Cornwall. See also: Cornwall film locations. Pages in category "Films set in Cornwall"
Malory Towers is a series of six novels by English author Enid Blyton.The series is based on a girls' boarding school that Blyton's daughter attended, Benenden School, which relocated during World War II to the Hotel Bristol in Newquay, Cornwall. [1]