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Georgina Frederica Jackson

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In 1870, whilst running the school, she compiled a list of Shropshire dialect words she remembered from her childhood. A friend convinced her to increase the scope of her work. She spent her holidays travelling the county, collecting words, and wrote in the evenings. These 'dialecting tours' were a
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Jackson was granted a civil-list pension in 1880 which enabled her to retire from teaching. The ill-health that had prevented her last tour in 1877 meant she spent her last years almost entirely bedridden. However, she continued her dialect work, volunteering to help with the
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in the UK. Skeat recommended she record the locality of each word and to use Ellis's glossic symbols. She spent the next four years revisiting her earlier work based on their advice.
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precursor of modern spoken corpora collection methods. She had amassed 3,000 words by 1873. She took advice from
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to support her widowed mother. She rose to be a school teacher, and eventually ran a school for young ladies.
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In 1877, Jackson had to cancel her planned tour of south-east Shropshire due to illness.
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awarded Jackson a grant of £100 in 1878 to prepare her work for publication. The
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Women and Dictionary-Making: Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography
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Georgina Frederica Jackson was born on 31 March 1824 in Everton,
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Jackson passed her notes on Shropshire folklore to her friend
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Jackson died on 16 October 1895 in Chester, and is buried in
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www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Shropshire_Word_book
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Liverpool
Chester
Walter William Skeat
Alexander John Ellis
philologists
Royal Literary Fund
Charlotte Burne
the local cemetery









"Jackson, Georgina Frederica (1824–1895), writer on dialect"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/59033
ISBN
978-0-19-861412-8
UK public library membership




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