Myrna May Combellack is a British academic researcher and writer of the
Institute of Cornish Studies
The Institute of Cornish Studies (, ICS) is a research institute in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, affiliated with the University of Exeter. Formerly at Pool, near Redruth, then in Truro, it is now on the Penryn Campus near Penryn, ...
(in the
Charles Thomas era), translator of ''
Beunans Meriasek
( English: ''The Life of Saint Meriasek'') is a Cornish play completed in 1504. Its subject is the legends of the life of Saint Meriasek or Meriadoc, patron saint of Camborne, whose veneration was popular in Cornwall, Brittany, and elsewher ...
'' and author of several works of fiction.
Early life
She graduated in English from the
University of York
, mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £8.0 million
, budget = £403.6 million
, chancellor = Heather Melville
, vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery
, students ...
in 1971.
Doctoral thesis
"A Critical Edition of
Beunans Meriasek
( English: ''The Life of Saint Meriasek'') is a Cornish play completed in 1504. Its subject is the legends of the life of Saint Meriasek or Meriadoc, patron saint of Camborne, whose veneration was popular in Cornwall, Brittany, and elsewher ...
" (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
*1988: ''The Camborne Play''. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran (translation in verse of ''Beunans Meriasek'')
Fiction
*1989: ''The Playing Place''. Redruth: Dyllansow Truran (novel)
*2002: ''A Fine Place: the Cornish estate''. Cornish Fiction
*2003: ''The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van''. Cornish Fiction
[''The Permanent History of Penaluna's Van'' is reviewed a]
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*2004: ''Cuts in the Face: stories from Cornwall''. Cornish Fiction
*2005: ''The Mistress of Grammar
ndNiobe's Tears''. Cornish Fiction (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
References and notes
Education in Cornwall
Academics of the University of Exeter
Living people
20th-century English novelists
21st-century English novelists
Alumni of the University of York
Novelists from Cornwall
English women novelists
Vassar College alumni
21st-century English women writers
20th-century English women writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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