Jessie Fothergill, Burnley

Jessie Fothergill, Burnley
Jessie Fothergill, Burnley
Jessie Fothergill, Burnley
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Jessie Fothergill, Burnley
Burnley
Jessie Fothergill, Thomas Fothergill, Dr. Coultate, Caroline Fothergill, Ken Spencer.
Jessie Fothergill Lancashire Novelist 1851-1891. Linked to Burnley through her maternal grandfather Dr. Coultate (1813-1882) who was a surgeon, magistrate and councillor in Burnley, where there is a street named after him, Jessie was born in 1851 in Cheetham Hill, daughter of Thomas Fothergill who in 1847 was a founding partner in Fothergill and Harvey, cotton weavers of Littleborough, Rochdale. She was still young when her father died, which meant a removal to Rochdale and a reduction in circumstances. Her first two books were unsuccessful but her third, "First violin" written after a time spent living in Germany, serialised in 1878 and published as a volume in 1879, was well received. She wrote several novels about Lancashire industrial life and landscape. A non-conformist and free-thinker, some of her novels featured actual local and historical events such as in "Kith and Kin", she reports on a large Liberal meeting, which took place at the Pomona Palace, a huge indoor space and garden area in south Manchester and in "Probation" she writes about the Cotton Famine in Rochdale. One novel "Temple Bar" is set in the Burnley/Pendle area. She travelled a lot, for the sake of her always fragile health and died suddenly in Berne 28.7.1891 aged only 40. Her books, popular at the time are largely forgotten. Her sister Caroline was also a writer. (Information on the Coultate family written by Ken Spencer is held in Burnley library. )
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