Nationality British Genre Novelist | Name Jessie Fothergill Role Novelist | |
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Died July 28, 1891, Bern, Switzerland Books The first violin, The First Violin ‑ a Novel ‑ V, Made Or Marred and "One of T, Kith and Kin: A Novel - Vo | ||
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Jessie Fothergill (June 1851 – 28 July 1891) was a British novelist.
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Life
Fothergill was born in Manchester, but she was bought up at a farmstead called Carr End in Wensleydale which had been in her father's family since the 17th century. Fothergill and her sister Catherine were both to write novels.
Her first two novels did not sell but her third novel The First Violin was very popular and made Fothergill's name. The story was written in Düsseldorf by Fothergill and it tells the story of an English girl who rejects the attentions of the rich farmer for the strange attractions of a German. The story was rejected by two publishers because it dealt with an affair by a married woman. The publishers thought this would not be well received but they were mistaken as considerable sales continued not only in Britain but also in the United States. The story was released in serial form in Temple Bar magazine and as a three-volume novel.
She travelled to Europe and to the United States being driven partially by a desire to avoid British weather as Fothergill's lungs had a medical condition.
Fothergill is recognised today because her novels were agnostic about religion.
Fothergill died in Bern on 28 July 1891.
Works
- Healey, 1875, 1884.
- Aldyth, 1876, 1877, 1891.
- The First Violin, 1877, 1878, 1879.
- The Wellfields, 1880 (Holts Leisure HourSer.), 1881.
- Kith and Kin, 1881, 1882.
- Made or Marred, 1881 (Bentley's Empire Library).
- One of Three, 1881 (Bentley's Empire Library).
- Peril, 1884.
- Borderland, 1886, 1887.
- The Lasses of Leverhouse, 1888.
- From Moor Isles, 1888, 1894.
- A March in the Ranks, 1890, 1891.
- Oriole's Daughter, 1893.