THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:
DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS
YORKSHIRE (NORTH RIDING)
Leclaire (1954: 136-7): “Born at Whitby, Yorkshire. Her father was a worker in jet, the chief industry of Whitby. She painted her own county and native town. She had a perfect knowledge of nature and men, and her pictures are both realistic, proud and tender. She loved the sea.”
WORKS
1871. Tales of the North Riding. Published under the pseudonym Stephen Yorke. London: Smith and Elder, London . EDD.
“North Riding of Yorkshire folk portrayed” (Leclaire 1954: 136)
1876. Cleveden. Published under the pseudonym Stephen Yorke. London: H. S. King. SC. Not in EDD.
1886. The Haven Under the Hill. London: R. Bentley and Son. London. EDD.
“Whitby, essentially. But she goes as far afield as Leeds” (Leclaire 1954: 137)
1887. In Exchange for a Soul. A Novel. London: Chatto & Windus. SC. EDD.
“How a Yorkshire fisher-girl rises to be the wife of the Squire” (Leclaire 1954: 137)
1887. Hagar: A North Yorkshire Pastoral. J. Clarke & Co. London. EDD.
“Yorkshire coast and country folk” (Leclaire 1954: 137)
KINGKONG PROJECT
Mary LINSKILL (F: 1840 Dec 13 - 1891 Apr 9)
(&ps: Stephen YORKE)
Tales Of The North Riding [s|1871]
Cleveden [f|1876]
Between The Heather And The Northern Sea [f|1884]
The Haven Under The Hill [f|1886]
In Exchange For A Soul [f|1887]
The Magic Flute [f|?]
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HER LIFE AND WORKS SEE
Hewitt, Jan: 2007. "'Such Girls As You Would Hardly See Anywhere Else in England ...': The 'Regional Feminine' of Mary Linskill's Fiction". In Christoph Ehland. ed. Thinking Northern: Textures of Identity in the North of England. Amsterdam: Rodopi: 117-38.
Quinlan, David and Arthur Frederick Humble. 1969. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Whitby: Horne & Sons.
Stamp, Cordelia. 2004 "Linskill, Mary Jane (1840–1891)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16741, accessed 15 May 2015]
Stamp, Cordelia. 1980. Mary Linskill (1840-1891). Whitby: Caedmon of Whitby Press.
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LITERARY DIALECTS
1800-1950
NORTH
YORKSHIRE PROSE
Mary Linskill
(Ps. Stephen Yorke)
(1840-1891)
(1887)