Melissa HardieMelissa Hardie is well-known in Cornish cultural circles, as an author and lecturer, founding director of the Hypatia Trust and patron of the arts. She was educated in English Language and Literature at Boston University and in Social Sciences at theUniversity of Edinburgh, where she was a senior research fellow. Since 1996 she has been an Honorary Library Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, Exeter University and of the English department at the University of Falmouth. She is author and editor of a number of previous books, and is also a contributor to the New Dictionary of National Biography. Read More Read Less