A MANUSCRIPT by a renowned Exmoor writer that had been lost for 40 years is set for publication this month.
Hope Bourne's Exmoor Village manuscript was rediscovered after the Exmoor Society employed archivist Dr Helen Blackman to investigate.
Hope is recognised now as perhaps the greatest Exmoor writer of the twentieth century and for half of her lifetime she lived in and around the village of Withypool on Exmoor.
In the late 1960s, she set about writing a tribute to the place. The book takes the reader around the village of Withypool, along the river and around the parish boundaries, describing the changing landscape, farms, local events and people.
Chairman of The Exmoor Society, Rachel Thomas, said: ‘Hope was such a well-loved Exmoor character that it is fitting her legacy of prolific writings, sketches and paintings will endure within The Exmoor Society’s archives in Dulverton and be accessible to all.’
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