Enys Tregarthen

[1] She was raised mainly by her mother, Sarah Sloggett, in Padstow; her father, Moses, worked at sea and died when Nellie was just six.

She started studying and writing and this practice eventually led to the publication of her first book, Daddy Longlegs, and His White Heath Flower, in 1885, under the pen-name 'Nellie Cornwall'.

She collected and recorded many stories about the Piskey folk, fairies of Cornish myth and legend.

Folk Literature of the British Isles: Readings for Librarians, Teachers, and Those Who Work with Children and Young Adults, edited by Eloise Speed Norton (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978), 93–95.

Young, Simon ''Her Room Was Her World', Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish Folklore', Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 11 (2017), 101-136 Young, Simon Enys Tregarthen of Padstow: A Neglected Cornish Folklorist and Fairyist (NP: Pwca, 2023)

Nellie Cornwall (1910) Tamsin Rosewarne and her Burdens
Illustration from North Cornwall fairies and legends of the Mermaid of Padstow
Tristram Bird and the Mermaid of Padstow, from Enys Tregarthen's North Cornwall Fairies and Legends