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Phase
1714–1837 CE
Georgian Cornwall was shaped by tin and copper mining, fishing, coastal trade, Methodism, smuggling and the power of local landowners. Its distance from London did not make it isolated; its mines and ports connected it to wider Atlantic and industrial networks. The landscape held both economic opportunity and severe hardship.
Cornwall mattered in the Georgian imagination because it showed a Britain of regional difference, labour conflict and maritime danger. Mining communities lived with risk, debt and fluctuating prices, while gentry families competed for influence and marriage. The coast added another layer of secrecy, trade and danger.
Winston Graham’s Poldark series is the dominant fictional reference for Georgian Cornwall, with Ross Poldark, Demelza and the Warleggans rooted in mining, class conflict and coastal society. The setting also suits novels about smugglers, miners, Methodists, shipwrecks and gentry estates. It is one of the strongest regional sub-settings for a Georgian book-discovery archive.
Series
The Poldark novels follow Ross, Demelza and their family in Cornwall from the aftermath of the American Revolutionary War through the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and into the Regency aftermath. The series combines mining, gentry politics, coastal smuggling, marriage, family conflict and the pressure of war on…
Books
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