Hannah Cowley (14 March 1743 – 11 March 1809) was an English dramatist and poet. Although Cowley’s plays and poetry did not enjoy wide popularity after the nineteenth century, critic Melinda Finberg [in Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists, OUP, 2001] rates Cowley as “one of the foremost playwrights of the late eighteenth century” whose “skill in writing […]

HISTORIC TIVERTON/ Introduction
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INTRODUCTION
 Tiverton has a long history, with the town’s name first recorded in King Alfred’s will (written about 880 AD).   There, the name was ‘Twyfiride’, meaning ‘two-fords’, later expanded to ‘two-ford-town’ – Tiverton.  Until recently, the standard History of Tiverton was by Martin Dunsford, published […]