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

Hartland Abbey  © Copyright  Roger Cornfoot  and licensed for reuse under this  Creative Commons Licence               A-Z of Devon Places and Devon Women Writers Her-Story at Hartland        My choice of Hartland for 'H' in this A-Z of Devon places associated with Devon women writers is twofold; I have two 'Devon' women in mind. They lived centuries apart and, for different reasons, both of their lives and specific connections with Hartland are swathed in mystery. They are  Elizabeth Stucley Northmore , who was a C20 writer and the very much earlier  Gytha , the C11 Danish noblewoman who spent part of her life in Devon, and became mother of kings and queens.          Not much appears to be known about either Gytha or Elizabeth; but they share certain characteristics, especially their upper-class ancestries.         Fifteen or so years before she escaped from Exeter down the river Exe and from thence more or less out of his or her story, Gytha mother o

    A - Z of Devon Places and Women Writers There's Rosemary There's Rue by Winifred Fortescue Photo Julie Sampson F for All, or Which ... Not Farringdon, Fremington, Feniton, Frithelstock but FILLEIGH        In contrast with Exeter, which I chose to represent E in this alphabet round up of Devon places associated with women writers, the choice for F was a challenge. There are few parishes in the county whose names which begin with F, and of those, as far as I am yet aware there are not any women authors who are linked with them. If you reading this know of a women writer who lived in, stayed at, wrote about or had any other link with one of Devon's few parishes beginning with 'F', please do get in touch.          And, whereas Exeter's links with our county's women authors are multiple (again as far as I am yet aware), Filleigh only connects with one writer. And not only was  she  not born in Devon, but her association with the county