Unwritten Woman by Hannah Lavery Caroline Bird The Cornish language and landscape

The Cornish language and landscape are deeply entwined

"Doce’s powers of observation

precise and stamped with a very English restraint

All the levels of life—the banal

First published in 2008

Unwritten Woman by Hannah Lavery Caroline Bird The Cornish language and landscapeHannah Lavery's Unwritten Woman is a bold and lavish call for us to see the woman in the stories we read and tell ourselves. From her search for the story, in her home city, Edinburgh, through her chilling re telling of Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll & Hyde, elevating the women in that classic tale from being written between the lines, to the woman of colour, shouting from the sidelines of our cultural landscape.