Mary Vivian Hughes (
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Also known as
Molly Hughes
Short biography
Although she grew up in Canonbury, London, Hughes was a descendent of the Cornish Vivians. She authored a history of her Cornish family, particularly her mother and aunt's upbringing in Cornwall in Vivians: A Family in Victorian Cornwall (1935).
Full biography
She also authored several memoirs on her experiences of growing up in London in the mid-to-late 1800s. Hughes was related to E. Lamorna Kerr, the Lamorna artist, and Charles Thomas, the founder of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter.
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Date of birth
02 October 1866
Date of death (approx)
c. 1956
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