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Jessie Saxby
Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby (30 June 1842 – 27 December 1940) was an author and folklorist from Unst, one of the Shetland Islands of Scotland. She also had political interests and was a suffragette. Family Born on 30 June 1842 at Halligarth, Baltasound, on the Shetland Island of Unst, Saxby's father was Laurence Edmondston, a medical doctor and naturalist; her mother was Eliza Macbrair (1801–1869), a journalist and published author from a Glasgow family. The couple had ten other children including Thomas, a botanist. By her own admission, Saxby received little formal education. Henry Saxby, a London born ornithologist and doctor, became Saxby's husband on 16 December 1859. The couple had six children but their only daughter died when an infant. They lived on Unst and Henry was a partner in his father-in-law's medical practice until 1871 when poor health necessitated a move to Edinburgh. The following year, in 1872, the family re-located to Inveraray but Henry di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Saxby
Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby (30 June 1842 – 27 December 1940) was an author and folklorist from Unst, one of the Shetland Islands of Scotland. She also had political interests and was a suffragette. Family Born on 30 June 1842 at Halligarth, Baltasound, on the Shetland Island of Unst, Saxby's father was Laurence Edmondston, a medical doctor and naturalist; her mother was Eliza Macbrair (1801–1869), a journalist and published author from a Glasgow family. The couple had ten other children including Thomas, a botanist. By her own admission, Saxby received little formal education. Henry Saxby, a London born ornithologist and doctor, became Saxby's husband on 16 December 1859. The couple had six children but their only daughter died when an infant. They lived on Unst and Henry was a partner in his father-in-law's medical practice until 1871 when poor health necessitated a move to Edinburgh. The following year, in 1872, the family re-located to Inveraray but Henry di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inveraray
Inveraray ( or ; gd, Inbhir Aora meaning "mouth of the Aray") is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is on the western shore of Loch Fyne, near its head, and on the A83 road. It is a former royal burgh, the traditional county town of Argyll, and ancestral seat to the Duke of Argyll. During the Second World War the Combined Operations Training Centre, located close to the town, was an important military facility. Coat of arms The town's coat of arms depicts a net cast out over the ocean, entangled in which are five herrings and the Latin motto "SEMPER TIBI PENDEAT HALEC" (possible English translation: "may a herring always hang to thee"). Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, in his 1909 book ''A Complete Guide to Heraldry'', notes the following: ''There'' is no doubt of its ancient usage. ...and the blazon of the coat, according to the form it is depicted upon the Corporate seal, would be for the field: "The sea proper, therein a net suspended from the dexter chief and the sini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Folklorists
A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardless of age. Typically, women inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, SRY-gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. A fully developed woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. Women have significantly less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Througho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Folklorists
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1940 Deaths
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1842 Births
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William Alexander Clouston
William Alexander Clouston (1843 – 23 October 1896) was a Scottish 19th century folklorist from Orkney."William Alexander Clouston, folklorist: introduction and bibliography" ''Folklore'', December 2004, by Gareth Whittaker ''A Supplement to Alliborne's Dictionary'' (1891, pp. 349–350), as quoted in ''Folklore'', gives the following biographical information: b. 1843, at , , of an old |
The Leisure Hour
''The Leisure Hour'' was a British general-interest periodical of the Victorian era which ran weekly from 1852 to 1905. It was the most successful of several popular magazines published by the Religious Tract Society, which produced Christian literature for a wide audience. Each issue mixed multiple genres of fiction and factual stories, historical and topical. The magazine's title referred to campaigns that had decreased work hours, giving workers extra leisure time. Until 1876, it carried the subtitle "A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation"; after that, the subtitle changed to "An illustrated magazine for home reading". Each issue cost one penny and contained 16 pages. The layout typically included approximately six long articles, formatted in two columns per page, and five or six illustrations. The articles were a mix, including biographies, poetry, essays, and fiction. Each issue usually started with a piece of serialised fiction. The creation of the magazine was pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber's Journal
''Chambers's Edinburgh Journal'' was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832. The first edition was dated 4 February 1832, and priced at one penny. Topics included history, religion, language, and science. William was soon joined as joint editor by his brother Robert, who wrote many of the articles for the early issues, and within a few years the journal had a circulation of 84,000. From 1847 to 1849 it was edited by William Henry Wills. In 1854 the title was changed to ''Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art'', and changed again to ''Chambers's Journal'' at the end of 1897. The journal was produced in Edinburgh until the late 1850s, by which time the author James Payn had taken over as editor, and production was moved to London. Serialised fiction from major authors, including Payn himself, became one of the journal's major attractions following his arrival. Among its long-standing contributors was Camilla Dufour Crosland Camilla D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy's Own Paper
''The Boy's Own Paper'' was a British story paper aimed at young and teenage boys, published from 1879 to 1967. Publishing history The idea for the publication was first raised in 1878 by the Religious Tract Society, as a means to encourage younger children to read and to instill Christian morals during their formative years. The first issue was published on 18 January 1879. The final issue, a "Special Souvenir Edition, Price 2/-", was dated February 1967 and was published on 27 January 1967. It was a facsimile reprint of the first issue, complete with adverts. It had a panel on the front cover giving a very brief history and stating that it would "appear in future as the BOY'S OWN ANNUAL, edited by Jack Cox". The paper was published weekly in a cycle which followed the school year (Autumn through to Summer) until November 1913, when it became monthly. In total, 2511 issues of the paper were published. There was an extra Christmas Number (edition) of the magazine from 1884–85 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life And Work (magazine)
''Life and Work'' is the editorially independent monthly magazine of the Church of Scotland. It was founded in 1879 by Archibald Hamilton Charteris. The first issue was published in January 1880 under the editorship of Rev Archibald Clerk from Lorne, Scotland, Lorn. It incorporated the ''Mission Record'' of the Church of Scotland from 1900, and at the 1929 union of the Church, it merged with United Free Church of Scotland, United Free Church's ''The Record'' as ''Life and Work: The Record of the Church of Scotland''. ''Life and Work'' was an initiative of the Church's Committee of Christian Life and Work, which was led by Charteris, a professor of biblical criticism at Edinburgh University who was also founder of the Woman's Guild. ''Life and Work'' has a 4-page Gaelic supplement, ''Na Duilleagan Gàidhlig'', established in 1880, which is included on request, and is alsavailable online The current editor is Lynne McNeil. In January 2006 the magazine reverted to its older ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Edmondston Saxby
Dr. Thomas Edmondston Saxby, Esq. F.R.F.P.S.: Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons; also: L.R.C.P. & S. Edin. (License of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Edinburgh): (1869-1952) was a Scottish medical doctor, working on Unst, the most northerly of the Shetland Islands, and an ornithologist. He was a member of a Shetland family with many doctors and naturalists, dating back to the sixteenth century. Biography Thomas Edmondston Saxby was born on 9 March 1869 at Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland.Genealogical data about Thomas Edmonston Saxby and family: * * * * (with sources). He was the third son of Jessie Margaret Edmondston (1842-1940) and Henry Linckmeyer Saxby (1836-1873). His mother became a wellknown author, and was a sister of the botanist Thomas Edmondston (1825-1846). His father was a physician and ornithologist. His grandfather Laurence Edmondston (1795-1879) was also a physician and ornithologist. Thomas E. Saxby went to scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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