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Holland; 27 April 1933 – 18 July 2011) was an
English autobiographer and publisher. She and her husband George Hartley co-founded the publication company Marvell Press in 1954, which published volumes of poetry. They also founded the record company Listen Records. After Hartley separated from her
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programme in 2010, which celebrated the life and works of Larkin on the 25th anniversary of his death with various celebrations in Hull. This included substantial planning to the Larkin Trail taking in the places where Larkin lived and worked. She enjoyed pottery and graphic art, with her work
239:, but you wouldn't understand it." Hartley was sent to a home for unmarried mothers after she gave birth to her first child in late 1951 when she was aged 17. Upon her return to Hull, she courted the art student George Hartley, whom she married on 24 August 1953. She had a daughter with him.
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At age 14, Hartley was awarded a scholarship to go to
Thoresby High School in Hull, studying "commercial" as one of three courses offered to her. After Hartley was compelled to find work, she dropped out of her education after one year to become a
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The marriage between her and her husband so strained that by mid-1968, they separated, taking the two children with her; they were divorced in 1974. Hartley left
Marvell Press the same year, to enroll on a course in English Literature at the
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University of Hull. She was cared at home by her daughters and granddaughter in her final years, and died on 18 July 2011, from heart failure at Victoria Avenue, Hull. Following a humanist ceremony, Hartley was buried in
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hold a collection of papers relating to the life and works of
Hartley from 1954 to 2011. They include her manuscripts, personal letters and correspondence to her friends, poets and Marvell Press, and items relating to her career.
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with the local major; she felt unhappy because of "haughty upper-class voices and the one-eyed major and his tall, be-jodhpured sons strutted about carrying riding-crops, but the maid was kind.
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on 27 April 1933, to a poor working-class family. Her father was the iron foundry labourer
William Manclin Holland and her mother was the domestic service worker Olive Holland,
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was rejected for sounding " too provincial". She was made the magazine's co-editor and business manager, which gained national readership and featured contributions from
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course in
Victorian Studies. She graduated in 1972, and took up a job teaching English at the renamed Amy Johnson School. From 1974 to 1991, Hartley lectured at the
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Simpson. Hartley was raised in Hull's fishing community on Hessle Road, where she did library errands for her mother. She was evacuated to a nearby
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at a nominal wage with a small accountancy firm, ignoring advice from her mother to "settle down". She found extra inspiration from classes of the
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in its second edition. Determined to publish poetry volumes, Hartley and her husband began
Marvell Press in 1954, partly named after the poet
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After purchasing some literary magazines, Hartley's husband decided to establish a Hull-based quarterly review poetry magazine called
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that was broadcast on 4 November 1992, which discusses single parenthood in Hull during the 1950s. Hartley promoted the poet's
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and the poetry magazine editor Ted
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in 1995, and was made vice-chairman of the Philip Larkin
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in 1964). In 1965, Hartley was impatient over how Larkin's poems were read by over-elocuted actors on the
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husband and left Marvell Press, she earned degrees in English Literature and Victorian Studies from the
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about her life. Hartley was on the steering committee of the
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holds a collection of items on Hartley's life and career.
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