Women Writing on the Devon Land: A County's Women Who Wrote - circa 1965

Old Schoolhouse Martinhoe Writing Women on the Devon Land A-Z of Devon Women Writers & Places Marking the Way to Martinhoe Old Schoolhouse Martinhoe          The little parish of Martinhoe in north Devon has to represent the 'M' in this  A-Z of Devon Women Writers & Places. I began the journey toward writing a  book about women many years ago, long before I researched then embarked on the written study of particular women writers. During the late eighties and early nineties, whilst researching and writing up my PhD, I ventured up to the remoter landscape north of the county to find where author/poet H.D.’s once stayed, in north Devon. She was there For several months in 196, during World War One she lived at Martinhoe then along the road at Parracombe .  Just as many other women writers associated with the South West, H.D. had significant connections with at least two of its counties, in her case it was with three (Devon, Cornwall and Dors

Looking over Kelly, in west Devon Photo Julie Sampson Women Writing on the Devon Land A-Zof Devon Women Writers' Places   K for Kelly        Compared to my post for J and Jacobstowe , the K entry, in this A-Z of Devon Women Writers' Places, is going to be relatively easy. Admittedly, I was a bit split as to which Devon parish to choose for 'K.  Kentisbeare came close second because of E.M. Delafield, whose home was near the village, but the manuscript of Writing Women on the Devon Land  includes extensive commentary about that author and she appears in several blog-posts in my other blog, Scrapblog of the SouthWest . (See especially Delafield's Devon DoubleScapes  and Sad December at Kentisbeare; E. M. Delafield's Tragedies ).        So, here, I thought I'd travel westwards to Kelly , the small parish near Tavistock, which is straddling Devon's border with Cornwall. So you will find the village on Genuki for Devon and also on Cornwall&#