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

Writing Women on the Devon Land  A – Z of Devon Women Writers & Places Sampford Peverell Church & Richmond House once home of Margaret Beaufort Photo Julie Sampson Skipping Qs or Rs,  but Spending Time down in Sampford Peverell -  Looking for Mid-Devon's Literary Links with a King's Mother         For the first time, I'm a little stuck in this A-Z. If anyone out there knows about a link between a woman writer and a Devon parish beginning with Q or R (she should have been living in any period ending 1965 or so - the time period of Writing Women on the Devon Land ), well please do get in touch. She may have lived in the parish, or have written about the place or indeed stayed there at some point. I may have to give up with Q (Queen's Nympton? ) but R might be possible - Rackenford, Romansleigh, Rose-Ash?  Lady Margaret Beaufort Unidentified painter [Public domain]        So, given the above comments, I've decided

Plymouth Hoe and Smeaton's Tower cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Ian Capper - geograph.org.uk/p/4651696 Women Writing on the Devon Land A – Z of Devon Women Writers & Places Plymouth's Literary Past in the Writing of its Women Early Plymouth Radicals           Yes, I know I could have chosen Paignton, Pinhoe or Princetown as the parish to represent P in this A – Z of Devon’s Women Writers (up to ca. 1965). There’s a cluster of women linked with these places whose lives and writings could be included. But really, it had to be Plymouth. Or, rather, given its important place in Devon’s history and the fact that it is the second largest city in the south-west, Plymouth could not be left out. Over the years (and up until circa 1965) plenty of women writers have lived or written about Plymouth and its surrounding area. I’ve already mentioned a few in passing in previous blog posts - see Frances Gregg, the War and The Mystic Leeway The Parker Circle of Saltra

        Okehampton Castle Photo Julie Sampson Writing Women on the Devon Land A-Z of Devon Women Writers & Places On the Ways to the Old Literary Roads around Okehampton          I could have chosen Offwell, Ogwell, Okeford, Otterton, or Ottery St Mary. But for this Alphabet of Devon Women Writers (up to about 1960), I settled on Okehampton. It's partly nostalgia, the town being a favourite place of my childhood, where I (albeit fairly briefly) and before me, both my parents attended school. I don't know of any individual woman author whose home was in the parish up to circa 1960 - but I do know several who included the place in their writings. Rosalind Northcote, Mary Ward and Sophie Dixon all set down in text their personal responses to the scenic, and/or historical characteristic of the Okehampton locality ...      ...  It is not just the romantic lines of Okehampton castle ruin that call, either when you spot Okehampton castle from the dual carriage