Peacocks, Plays, and Pseudonyms

You may be familiar with the renowned local lady folklorist, Miss Mabel Peacock. Mabel was a 19th-20th Century pioneer in documenting, preserving, and creating local Lincolnshire folklore material, alongside contemporary scientific and philosophical studies.

But did you know Mabel Peacock was also a playwright? There are six playscripts thought to have been written by Mabel in the Peacock family archive. Though one play stands out, attributed to a mysterious and unknown author: a ‘Lucian Wetherell’. Who is Lucian ‘Wetherell’? And why was ‘his’ play among Mabel's manuscripts?

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You may also like the following events from North Lincolnshire Museum:

• Next month, 16th September, 12:00 pm, Historical sites of Bottesford: Tales, Legends, and Hauntings behind them in Scunthorpe

Also check out other Arts events in Scunthorpe, Literary Art events in Scunthorpe.