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As for hundreds of artists, St Ives became a centre for writers and poets once the railway linking St Erth to the town opened in 1877. The town and surrounding countryside as well as the sea have been a constant inspiration to generations of writers over the years. A number moved to the town permanently, while others would and continue to make regular visits. Their writings cover the areas of history, the arts, fiction, biography, criticism, local customs and folk stories.
St Ives has also produced many of its own important writers and poets whose work has been influential in the writing of the history of the town and wider area.
St Ives has had its own newspapers since 1889: The St Ives Weekly Summary and Visitors’ List from 1889 to 1919; The Western Echo from 1903 to 1957; The St Ives Times from 1913 to 1954 and The St Ives Times & Echo from 1955 to the present day. Many writers have contributed articles to one or more of these publications over the years, and early in the 20th century poetry was a regular feature of these weekly journals.
The St Ives Library service has generously made available to the Archive Study Centre all these publications on microfilm, and articles may be researched and copied for a small fee.
The Archive Centre currently has files on the following writers and poets:
A
Arthur Westlake Andrews
Janet Axten
Ark Press (Kim Taylor)
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B
Denys Val Baker
Mary Baker
John T Barber
Sven Berlin
Bert Biscoe
Hilary Bonner
Phyllis Bottome
William Bottrell
Sophie Bowness
Robin Brampton
David Brown
C
Arthur Caddick
Tony Carver
Sarah Jane Checkland
John Charles Clark
Stanley Cock
Barry Cockcroft
Tom Cross
Vanessa Curtis
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D
Peter Davies
J M Doble
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E
William Eadie
Havelock Ellis
Edith Ellis
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F
Bridget Flanagan
Michael Foreman
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G
William Sydney Graham
Nessie Graham (Dunsmuir)
A Guthrie (Bret)
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H
F E Halliday (Frank)
Nancie Halliday
Karen Hayes
Eric Hirth
Emily Hobhouse
J H Hodge
Joseph Paul Hodin
Jonathan Holmes
W H Hudson
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I
Richard Ingleby
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J
Beryl James
Willie James
Jamieson Library
A K Hamilton Jenkin
Colin T Johnson
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K
Sylvia Kantaris
Roger Clive Kemp
Margaret Kennedy
Kneehigh Theatre
L
D H Lawrence
Norman Levine
David Lewis
Literary Society
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M
John MacCleay
Steve Martin
Greville Ewing Matheson
John Robson Matthews
Edward Mayor
Ian McDonald
Sara McDonald
John McWilliams
Ernest Morton Nance
C Morton Raymont
C S Murrish
Peter Murrish
Eddie Murt
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N
Robert Morton Nance
Cyril Noall
R J Noall
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O
Alison Oldham
June Opie
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P
Jill Paton Walsh
Rev. Mark Guy Pearse
Penwith Poets
N Roy Phillips
Rosamunde Pilcher
Gerald Priestland
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Q
Eric Quayle
Henry Quick
Mary Quick
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R
Donald Rawe
Sir Herbert Read
Tom Richards
Charles Rodda
Keith Ross
A W Rowe
Edward Rowe
Frank Ruhrmund
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S
Borlase Smart
Leonard Spray
Gertrude Starink
C J Stevens
Brian Stevens
Dennis Stevens
A G Folliott Stokes
Jean Stubbs
Alaric Sumner
Rosemary Sumner
T
J C Tanner
David Tovey
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V
John Van Lydens
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W
Hugh Walpole
Clare White
David Whittaker
Marion Whybrow
Eric Williams
Mary Williams
Virginia Woolf
Austin Wormleighton
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Z
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