This post is all about the various Lanyon authors and books mentioning Lanyons.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr Hastie Lanyon is one of the characters in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, he represents the traditional scientist uninterested in the ‘other world’. Lanyon and Jekyll had been firm friends but Lanyon broke off the friendship when Jekyll became too focused on delving into the darker aspects of science. Jekyll/Hyde decide to take their revenge on Lanyon and Hyde arranges a metamorphosis to occur before the good doctor Lanyon. Lanyon is so horrified that Jekyll has been successful in releasing his own evil that Lanyon cannot face the thought that there resides a similar Edward Hyde within him; three weeks after Hyde’s contrived baiting of Lanyon’s curiosity, the meek doctor is dead of shock. (Cliffs Notes.)
The House of Lanyon by Valerie Anand
The War of the Roses rages around the Lanyons in Exmoor. When two ambitious families occupy the same patch of English soil, rivalry is sure to take root and flourish. A glimmer of initiative swells into blind desire, and minor hurts, nursed with jealousy, fester into a malignant hatred. When a bitter feud is born the price for this wild and beautiful piece of ground will take more than three generations to settle. (Amazon.)
John Penrose by John Coulson Tregarthen
Set in the countryside near Penzance (around Lanyon) is the early nineteenth century, this engaging novel chronicles the adventures of John Penrose, a farm labourer’s son – from poaching on the moors and smuggling to a near-fatal skirmish. Full of rich character and vivid depictions of the countryside, wildlife and farming customs, John Penrose is a thoroughly entertaining read, offering a fascinating portrait of life in rural Cornwall.
Swell by Christopher Lanyon
Christopher Lanyon’s playful, topographical poems embody what it means to swell: in the rising and falling breath of landscape, in the joyous vulnerability of intense friendship and love, in the wake of the inexorable changes to which body and world are bound. This pamphlet takes a kaleidoscopic view of the material; full of flex and growth, feather and claw. In dialogue with fathers and poets, quarries and coastlines, Lanyon asks who we are, and who we want to be. (Bad Betty Press.)
Walter Clemow Lanyon
Walter was born in America in 1887 the son of Simon Lanyon and Ellen Tresedder (St Allen branch) and travelled all over the world investigating and studying the various presentations of Christian teachings. He wrote numerous spiritual books. He died in 1967.
- And It Was Told of a Certain Potter (1917)
- Embers (1918)
- Your Home (1918)
- Has It Ever Occurred To You? (1919)
- Abd Allah, Teacher, Healer (1921)
- A Royal Diadem (1921)
- Treatment (1921)
- Demonstration (1921)
- Your Heritage (1923)
- The Joy Bringer (1925)
- Leaves of the Tree (1925)
- London Notes and Lectures (1928)
- Impressions of a Nomad (1930)
- It Is Wonderful (1931)
- The Laughter of God (1932)
- The Eyes of the Blind (1932)
- Behold the Man (1933)
- Out of the Clouds (1934)
- A Lamp Unto My Feet (1936)
- The Temple Not Made With Hands (1936)
- Thrust In the Sickle (1936)
- A Light Set Upon a Hill (1938)
- I Came (1940)
- That Ye Might Have (1940)
- Life More Abundant (1940)
- Without the Smell of Fire (1941)
- 2 A.M. (1944)
- The Impatient Dawn (1946)
- Ask (1970)
Carla Lanyon Lanyon
I don’t know where Carla fits in the tree.
Craig M Lanyon
‘Thoughts from a Mountain’ poetry.
The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
Dr Who episode written by Nicholas Pegg.
Richard Lanyon
Richard Lanyon wrote two books ‘Draining Chicago’ and ‘Building the Canal to Save Chicago’.
Venetia by Georgette Heyer
Heyer’s 1958 novel is about Venetia Lanyon
John Owen Lanyon
The Four Wordsmen Of The Apostrophe formed in 2012 when Rob Stepney invited three fellow poets, John Lanyon, Adrian Lancini and Edward Fenton, to join him in publishing a book of their poetry, prose and stories.
The Lanyons 