The Growing Influence of Jenner and Lach-Szyrma
摘要
This chapter examines the wider publication of Cornish texts in the nineteenth century and how Henry Jenner was perhaps not necessarily regarded as the expert on the Cornish language by his contemporaries at this time. It considers the contribution of the Reverend Wladislaw Lach-Szyrma by examining both his correspondence with Jenner and the papers concerning Cornish which both men presented in the 1870s. Lach-Szyrma was actively speaking with the local Cornish community; giving talks to local organisations and promoting the idea of teaching Cornish. Lach-Szyrma described the use of ‘living fragments’ of Cornish during this period, was the promoter of an essay competition about history and use of Cornish and suggested the creation of a Cornish language manual thirty years before Jenner’s Handbook was published.