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

  Old map showing 'Coldrudge', 'Afbridge'  and 'North Tauton '   Part Two      (See Part One  - Setting the Scene/s)      Through the Gateways          ... F ollowing the visit to  Coldridge I became distracted, the demands of writing new poems for a new sequence about 'Gateway' ancestors taken over by the more rigorous demands of research - snippets of information and names from the Coldridge mystery also fed into the peopled labyrinths of Devon’s late medieval early Tudor families, from whom I was sampling snippets about women's lives into my new sequence of poems. One of the women was Katherine de Affeton, who by now, following aeons of research, I had reason to believe may well have been one of our Sampson family's gateway many many times great grandmothers - through the lineage of Bartholomew Earland - whose marriage with Nan Cann had enticed me to visit Coldridge in the beginning. (See Post One) . In my last draft I'd left Ka