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Stuart Courtman
Stuart moved to the Peak District ten years ago and lives in a hamlet established in the eighteenth century industrial revolution. In 1865, the hamlet was described as a small row of cottages, standing on a bleak and wild looking moor-like prominence, as if the buildings had been lifted out of the adjoining valley to look about them. That valley is dominated by Litton and Cressbrook cotton mills and Stuart was drawn into the fascinating history of the area. The research threw up many interesting facts but also left unanswered questions. Stuart's first novel Blincoe's Progress fills those gaps with a fiction set in the eighteenth century centred around local characters and events. He is also the author of Robert Blincoe and the Cotton Trade.
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