Friday, November 13, 2009

Daphne Du Maurier wrote "Cornish Gothic" novels, but can anyone think of other authors who used the genre?

I don't know about Gothic, but Rev Sabine Baring-Gould wrote a lot of novels set in Devon and Cornwall. His " In the Roar of the Sea" is set around St Enodoc and reminds me very much of Dapne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn. It was published in 1892, and is not the sort of book you would expect a Victorian Vicar to write.

Daphne Du Maurier wrote "Cornish Gothic" novels, but can anyone think of other authors who used the genre?
Try some Jonathan Aycliffe , particularly The Vanishment





List of books here





http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redi...
Reply:Victoria Holt (also known as jean Plaidy) wrote a lot of Gothic novel, some of which i think are set in Cornwall.





Winston Graham's 'Poldark' series were set in Cornwall, though I am not sure they are Gothic, a bit maybe.





'I Capture the Castle' is NOT set in Cornwall, it is set in East Anglia, which is a very long way from Cornwall and about as different from Cornwall as you can get, East Anglia being mostly quite flat, and Cornwall being all hills and cliffs and moors.
Reply:Dodie Smith wrote " I capture the castle" set in Cornwal in a castle!
Reply:R.D. Blackmore's *Lorna Doone* is Devonish Gothic.


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