Editing St Ives, Cornwall (section)

===Literature and popular culture===
[[File:2009 cornwall.st ives90.jpg|thumb|St Ives harbour and the sea beyond]]
Early-20th-century figures in St Ives appear in [[Virginia Woolf]]'s reflections contained in "[[A Sketch of the Past]]", from ''[[Moments of Being]],'' "... I could fill pages remembering one thing after another. All together made the summer at St. Ives the best beginning to life imaginable.<ref>"A Sketch of the Past," from ''Moments of Being''. New York: Harcourt, 1985, pp. 128 ff.</ref> Her 1927 novel ''[[To the Lighthouse]]'' is said to have been influenced by the view from Talland House where she stayed with her parents on family holidays.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/virginia-woolf-fans-fight-to-save-view-that-inspired-to-the-lighthouse-a6725621.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/virginia-woolf-fans-fight-to-save-view-that-inspired-to-the-lighthouse-a6725621.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Virginia Woolf are fighting to save the view that inspired 'To The Lighthouse'|date=7 November 2015|work=The Independent|access-date=26 March 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref>

This St Ives is generally believed to be the one referred to in the famous [[nursery rhyme]] ''"[[As I was going to St Ives]]"''.

The Cornish language poet [[Mick Paynter]] is resident in St Ives.

Modern-day novelist [[Elizabeth Day]], author of ''The Party,'' writes many of her novels whilst staying in St Andrews Street in St Ives.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pindropstudio.com/interview-elizabeth-day-on-her-new-novel-the-party/|title=Interview: Elizabeth Day on her new novel, The Party|website=Pin Drop|language=en|access-date=26 March 2018}}</ref>

The ''[[Ulysses Moore]]'' series of books, written by [[Pierdomenico Baccalario]] are based in the hypothetical village of [[Ulysses Moore#Kilmore Cove|Kilmore Cove]] near [[Zennor]] and St Ives.

[[Helen Dunmore]]'s novel ''[[Zennor in Darkness]]'' is set locally, at the time of the First World War, when [[D. H. Lawrence]] and his German wife came to Cornwall to escape the war in London.

[[Lauren St John]]'s ''Dead Man's Cove'' is situated in St. Ives. The first in a series of books about an eleven-year-old girl called Laura Marlin, who becomes a detective.

The St Ives Literature Festival is an annual week-long event, started in 2008, in May. Open air performances are held in Norway Square and the St Ives Arts Club, as well as talks, workshops and live music.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cornwall/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8636000/8636873.stm | title=St Ives Literature Festival | date=22 April 2010|work=[[BBC News]] Arts & Culture | publisher=[[BBC]] | location=UK |access-date=26 March 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref>