Philip Payton 
A.L. Rowse And Cornwall [PDF ebook] 
Paradoxical Patriot

List of Illustrations
Preface
1 ‘This Was the Land of My Content’: A Fitting Epitaph?
2 ‘No Wonder I Preferred Life at All Souls’: Escaping a Cornish Childhood
3 ‘You’re No Rowse’: The Mount–Mabel–Montana
4 ‘She Made Me Detest the Very Nature of Women’: A Mother’s Legacy?
5 ‘A Deep Anxiety to Do His Best for Cornwall’: Confronting the Politics of Paralysis
6 ‘Haunted by Cornwall’: A Case of Mutual Rejection?
7 ‘Not Being English, Alas–But Hopelessly Cornish’: Embracing Churchill’s England
8 ‘The Biggest and Most Significant of Cornish Themes’: America and the Great Emigration
9 ‘I Have Been ‘In Love’ with Cornwall All My Life’: Reclaiming the Cornish Past and Future
10 ‘Marooned on My Headland’: Retirement, Isolation and Loneliness
11 ‘All the Island Peoples’: Writing British and Cornish History
Conclusion: ‘What Could I Not Have Done for Cornwall!’
Notes
Further Reading
Lost of the Principle Works by A.L. Rowse
Index
 

Philip Payton is Emeritus Professor in the University of Exeter and Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and is the former Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in the University of Exeter. He edited Cornish Studies, published annually from 1993-2013, the only series of publications that seeks to investigate and understand the complex nature of Cornish identity, as well as to discuss its implications for society and governance in contemporary Cornwall.
He has written extensively on Cornish topics, and recent books include A.L. Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005), Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s Little Cornwall (2007), John Betjeman and Cornwall: ‘The Celebrated Cornish Nationalist’ (2010), and (edited with Alston Kennerley and Helen Doe), The Maritime History of Cornwall (2014). He has recently been awarded South Australian Historian of the Year 2017 by the History Council of South Australia.