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charlotte mary matheson
Arts – Literature, Business & Enterprise, Farming & Agriculture, Hospitality
1888 - 1937
Suggested by David Hunter
David notes,
“Charlotte Mary Matheson - Cornish Novelist – resting place St Columb Minor Church - lived at and ran Porth Veor Manor Hotel inc Porth Cottage with her husband Stanley Threlkeld - they had 2 children, Stephen and Felicity in 1924 and 1926 - lived there until 1937 when she sadly passed away aged 48 after suffering breast cancer.
Charlotte served in the Women’s Land Army and the Women’s National Land Service Corps in WW1. She was an Under Herdsman on the Prince of Wales’s Farm on the Duchy Estate at Stoke Climsland Cornwall where she had many Bulls in her charge. She had a great love for Cornish farming and country side.
She was a major leading force in 3 fields of what was traditionally a man’s world - writing, hospitality and farming. A wonderful example of early 20th century feminism. Her strong female leads are central to many of her novels, often seen to be torn between expectations of women at the time and their need to be part of a more modern ethos.“
From Wikipedia:
In The Generation Between, 1915, the heroine Thomasine searches for freedom and happiness in early 20th century England. She is 17 when the novel begins. The novel explores discrimination and prejudice against women in England at that time, and feminist ideas. For a time Thomasine stays at the fictional community of Dyleshart, a new all women town run entirely by women, with accompanying gardens and farmlands. The title refers to the generation of women between the dying "old way" and a predicted future of much more equality and freedom for women. Thomasine says: "... We are betwixt and between. The old way is over, the new way is come. We're bearing the brunt of it. We're the generation between." (p. 70)
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