Everett, David, “Henry Jenner and the British Museum”, in: Philip Payton (ed.), Cornish studies 19, 19, Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2011. 140–158.
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Recent scholarship in Cornish Studies has returned to the Cornish-language revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a fresh, critical eye. In particular, it has re-engaged with the complex life and work of Henry Jenner, reassessing his position within the pantheon of early Cornish-language revivalists and examining the full range of his academic, religious, political and other enthusiasms. This article is a contribution to that debate, and seeks to shed new light upon the period that Jenner was at the British Museum in London. Jenner's life during the last three decades of the nineteenth century has often been overlooked in Cornwall, mainly because it was spent living and working in London. We are fortunate in having copies of the talks on Cornish and Manx he gave to the Philological Society, and the letters he wrote to his wife. In this way, we can build up a picture of the man who was to become intimately involved in the revival of the Cornish language, and who was a founder of the Cornish Gorsedd.
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