Myrna Combellack
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Myrna May Combellack is a Cornish{{Cite book |last=Kent |first=Alan |title='Wives, Sisters and Mothers': Feminism, Literature and Women Writers in Cornwall |publisher=The Patten Press |year=1998 |isbn=1872229336 |location=Penzance, Cornwall |pages=40 |language=En}}{{Cite book |last=Kent |first=Alan |title=Towards a Cornish Philosophy: Values, Thought, and Language for the West Britons in the Twenty-First Century |publisher=Evertype |year=2013 |isbn=9781782010456 |pages=63 |language=En}} academic researcher and writer of the Institute of Cornish Studies (in the Charles Thomas era), translator of Beunans MeriasekLife of Saint Meriasek. and author of several works of fiction.
Early life
She graduated in English from the University of York in 1971.[http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/dao/keepintouch/webgradhunt06/WebGradHuntList1970s.htm Univ. of York Graduate search website.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070106090749/http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/dao/keepintouch/webgradhunt06/WebGradHuntList1970s.htm |date=6 January 2007 }}
Doctoral thesis
"A Critical Edition of Beunans Meriasek" (PhD thesis, University of Exeter, 1985)
Publications
=Academic work=
- 1974: A Survey of Musical Activities in Cornwall (Series: Special reports; no.1). Redruth: Institute of Cornish Studies {{ISBN|0-903686-05-8}}
- 1988: The Camborne Play. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran {{ISBN|1-85022-039-5}} (translation in verse of Beunans Meriasek)
=Fiction=
- 1989: The Playing Place. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran {{ISBN|1-85022-041-7}} (novel)
- 2002: A Fine Place: the Cornish estate. Cornish Fiction {{ISBN|0-9541918-0-3}}
- 2003: The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van. Cornish Fiction {{ISBN|0-9541918-1-1}}The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van is reviewed at [http://abrax7.stormloader.com/penaluna.htm abrax7] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926221916/http://abrax7.stormloader.com/penaluna.htm |date=26 September 2007 }}
- 2004: Cuts in the Face: stories from Cornwall. Cornish Fiction {{ISBN|0-9541918-2-X}}
- 2005: The Mistress of Grammar [and] Niobe's Tears. Cornish Fiction {{ISBN|0-9541918-3-8}} (novella and short story; "Niobe's tears" was first published in The new quarterly cave; v. 2, no. 4, 1977)
- 2007: A Place to Stay: the Cornish bypass (Playing Place series). Cornish Fiction {{ISBN|0-9541918-4-6}}
References and notes
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