Enys Tregarthen

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Location

Kresen Kernow

Dates

Tue 9th May, 2023
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3:00 pm |
The online talk will last approximately 45 minutes - 1 hour with Q&A afterwards

About this event

Life and work of Enys Tregarthen – free online talk.

Join us for an online talk by Dr Simon Young on the life and work of Ellen Slogget/Nellie Cornwall/Enys Tregarthen, best known for her amazing folklore tales.

From a working-class background, she lived in Padstow with wealthy relatives after suffering a spinal disease in her teens which left her paralysed.

Initially writing under the penname Nellie Cornwall, she wrote about everyday life in Cornwall. Then later in life, Ellen used the pseudonym Enys Tregarthen to write her Cornish folklore tales.

She published one of her most important books ‘The Piskey Purse: Legends and Tales of Northern Cornwall’, when she was 55.

This talk will be delivered on Zoom and joining information will be sent out on the morning of the talk.

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About the speaker:

Simon Young studied at Clare College, Cambridge and left with a starred first in Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic in 1995.

He trained as a medievalist and after living in Spain for several years, completed his doctorate at the University of Florence in 2006.

He currently teaches contemporary Italian, religious and food history.

He’s published several books over his career, more recently on supernatural beliefs (after changing his study focus in the 2010s) including: The Boggart: Folklore, History, Placenames and Dialect (Exeter University Press 2022). This was runner up for the Katharine Briggs Prize and was given Honourable Mention for the Wayland Hand Prize.

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Contact

01209 614 430 | https://kresenkernow.org/event/life-and-work-of-enys-tregarthen-free-online-talk/

Accessibility

Details

Kresen Kernow is fully wheelchair and pushchair accessible, with lifts to all levels and automatic main entrance doors. Accessible toilets are available on both floors, with a fully-equipped Changing Places toilet also available on the ground floor. Separate baby changing facilities are also available on the ground floor. If you are arriving by vehicle, there are six accessible parking spaces at the Tesco side of the building and a level entrance into the building. If you are arriving on foot or wheels, from Redruth town centre, the closest entrance is at the end of the public path which runs through the old brewery site, from Chapel Street to Kresen Kernow.