![]() ![]() TSC: The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies ![]() How the archival discoveries revealed secrets of Kirk’s life (through painstaking textual analysis and transcription), and how the context of these discoveries (research libraries a Scottish castle a winter’s writing retreat and long-distance summer walks) all fed into the portrayal of Kirk and his world, will be discussed. I situate this enquiry within my own practice-based research undertaken for my PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester (2014-2018) and what this potential discovery means for Kirk scholarship. I analyse its provenance and content in a comparative study with extant MSS, contemporary accounts, and scholarship. In this palaeographic enquiry I describe the discovery of a possible lost manuscript by the Reverend Robert Kirk – a version of his famous monograph, The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, Fairies (1691). ![]() Having covered the experiential approach elsewhere (2020), here I focus primarily upon the archival. Is it possible to achieve authenticity in the fictionalisation of a historic figure? To research my novel, The Knowing – a Fantasy, extensive experiential and archival research was undertaken. ![]()
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