THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

CORNWALL

DING 2011: "Mrs Parr first used her pseudonym in 1868. She signed most of her novels under her real name. Although Joseph Wright used her novel Adam and Eve as a source for Cornish English, she apparently also learnt the Devonshire dialect during her childhood in Plymouth. Many of the stories in Adam and Eve were taken from Dr. Jonathan Couch's The History of Polperro (1870)”

Leclaire (1854:139): "Born in London where she lived after her marriage with George Parr, a doctor in Kensington, in 1869. Educated at Plymouth. Two of her books deal with Cornwall. Her father was in the Royal Navy.”

WORKS

1874. Hero Carthew. New York: Holt and Williams. SC. Not in EDD.

“The scene is laid at Mallett, on the Cornish bank of the Tamar.” (Leclaire 1954: 139)

1880. Adam and Eve. Vol. I. London: Bentley and Son. SC. EDD.

1880. Adam and Eve. Vol. II. London: Bentley and Son. SC. EDD.

1880. Adam and Eve. Vol. III. London: Bentley and Son. SC. EDD.

KINGKONG PROJECT

Louisa (Sarah Ann) PARR, nee TAYLOR (F: 1848 - 1903 Nov 2)

(&ps: [Mrs Olinthus LOBB])

Dorothy Fox [f|1870]

How It All Happened.. [s|1871]

The Prescotts Of Pamphillon [f|1873]

The Gosau Smithy.. [s|1875]

Adam And Eve [f|1880]

Robin [f|1882]

Loyalty George [f|18

The Squire [f|1892]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Anonymous. 1897. “Some Women Novelists: Louisa Parr”. Woman at Home 7: 176-82, 195-200, 206-11. Rpt. Ann Heilmann. 1998. The Late Victorian Marriage Question: The Debate. London: Routledge. Vol. 2: 197-98.

Lee, Elizabet. 2004. "Parr , Louisa Sarah Ann (1848?–1903)." rev. Katharine Chubbuck. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35391, accessed 5 May 2015]

"Louise Sarah Ann Parr." Wikipedia.

LITERARY DIALECTS

1800-1950

SOUTH

CORNWALL PROSE

Louisa Sarah Ann Parr (Née Taylor)

(Ps. Mrs. Olinthus Lobb)

(1848?-1903)

Hero Carthew
(1873)