Cornwall (The Romance of a Shop, Amy Levy)

Cornwall (The Romance of a Shop, Amy Levy)

Cornwall is England’s most south-westerly county, located on the Atlantic Ocean, it is best known for fishing, mining, and farming and is made up of Rural community with a population of just under 600,000. Cornwall is unique compared to many other places in England due to the fact that many Cornish people have an identity separate from the English or British. This is a product of the fact that the people of Cornwall have their own language, Cornish. Cornish is a revived language meaning that it was extinct and then came back. Cornwall is one of the poorest counties in England, being just one of four areas that qualified for poverty related grants from the EU. In the story, Frank, Lucy's boyfriend and the girls mentor is from Cornwall and goes home to visit his family.

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“The evening of which I write was one of the last of May, and Frank had come in to bid them farewell, before setting out the next morning for a short holiday in Cornwall; "the old folks," as he called his parents, growing impatient of their only son's prolonged absence.”

"The country will be looking its very best," cried Frank, who loved his beautiful home; "the sea a mass of sapphire with the great downs rolling towards it. I mean to have a big swim the very first thing. No one knows what the sea is like, till they have been to Cornwall.”

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