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cicely sidgwick
Arts; Writer, Literature
1855 – 1934
Suggested by Paul Martin
Paul writes,
“Cicely Sidgwick lived amongst and wrote several books about the Lamorna colony of artists. Her books, In Other Days (scandalously unreprinted since 1915, there are only 2 copies that I can find one in Morrab Library and the other in the British Library), None-Go-By and others describe in fictional form the Lamorna group of artists including, Birch, Knight, Munnings and Naper.
She wrote very wittily about the Cornish community she lived in.
Her descriptions of the people and places show I think, that she clearly loved Cornwall.”
From the Hypatia Trust’s Women in Cornwall archive:
Mrs Cicely Wilhelmine Sidgwick
Maiden name, Ullman
Also known as, Mrs Andrew Dean
A novelist and journalist, Sidgwick produced over fourty novels.
Born 1855 in London to a German Jewish family. She married the philosopher Alfred Sidgwick (the cousin of the better-known philosopher Henry Sidgwick) in 1883.
They lived in Manchester, where he was Professor of Logic, from 1886 at, London, and from 1906, Cornwall. The couple first stayed in Lelant with the Havelock Ellises and then built Trewoofe Orchard, Lamorna to be their permanent residence. Her first novel featuring a Cornish setting was The Kinsman (1907).
31 of Cicely work’s are listed in the archive and held in in the Hypatia Trust Elizabeth Trefry collection in Morrab Library Penzance including Storms and Teacups, this first edition published in 1931.