Margaret Ann Courtney
Margaret Ann Courtney (16 April 1834 – 12 May 1920) was a Cornish[1][2][3] poet and folklorist based in Penzance, Cornwall.
Family life
Margaret Ann Courtney was born at Penzance in 1834, the eldest daughter of Sarah Mortimer Courtney and John Sampson Courtney.[3] Her mother was from Scilly; her father from Devon. One brother, John Mortimer Courtney, was a government official in Canada; another, Leonard Henry Courtney, was a British politician. Her younger sister Louise d'Este Courtney married Richard Oliver, a New Zealand politician from Cornwall.[citation needed]
Publications
M. A. Courtney is perhaps best known for her book Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore (1890), a detailed description of many of the traditions and folklore present in west Cornwall.[4] It has also appeared under the title Folklore and Legends of Cornwall.[5] Other titles by Courtney included Cornish Feasts and Feasten Times (1910)[6] and Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall (1880, co-authored with Dr. Thomas Quiller Couch).[7] A poem by Margaret Ann Courtney was included in the 2000 collection Voices from West Barbary: an anthology of Anglo-Cornish poetry 1549-1928.[8]
See also
References
- ↑ Kent, Alan (1998). 'Wives, Mothers and Sisters': Feminism, Literature and Women Writers in Cornwall. Penzance, Cornwall: The Patten Press. pp. 14–15. ISBN 1872229336.
- ↑ "Cornish Christmas past - winter solstice celebrations". Kowethas Ertach Kernow. 24 December 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 William Henry Kearley Wright, West Country Poets: Their Lives and Works (E. Stock 1896): 122.
- ↑ Margaret Ann Courtney, Cornish Feasts and Folk-Lore (EP Books 1973).
- ↑ Margaret Ann Courtney, Folklore and Legends of Cornwall (Cornwall Books 1989). ISBN 9781871060058.
- ↑ M. A. Courtney, Cornish Feasts and Feasten Times (Read Books 2010). ISBN 9781445520988
- ↑ M. A. Courtney and T. Q. Couch, Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall (Trübner & Co 1880).
- ↑ Alan M. Kent, ed., Voices from West Barbary: an anthology of Anglo-Cornish poetry 1549-1928 (Francis Boutle Publishers 2000): 145.