HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H02011 2/5/02 "MODEL FOR STORY TELLER IN H.E." ================================================================== Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:18:50 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: coyote.csusm.edu: list set sender to HARDY-L-request@coyote.csusm.edu using -f From: "Mary Medlicott" To: "The Forum" Subject: Ethelberta Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:21:29 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Resent-From: HARDY-L@csusm.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2139 Reply-To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu X-Loop: HARDY-L@coyote.csusm.edu Precedence: list Reply-To: Status: I am interested in where Hardy might have got the idea of representing Ethelberta (in The Hand of Ethelberta) as a professional storyteller. He was interested in the theatre, he knew about Scheherezade, he had seen Dickens' readings, which seem to have been much like storytellings. But did Hardy know of any oral storytellers performing publicly at this time? Has anyone any information or ideas? Yours Mary Medlicott Mary.Medlicott@cwcom.net ========== Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:08:37 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: coyote.csusm.edu: list set sender to HARDY-L-request@coyote.csusm.edu using -f Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 13:04:37 -0800 To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu From: Betty and/or John Cortus Subject: Re: Ethelberta Resent-From: HARDY-L@csusm.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2140 Reply-To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu X-Loop: HARDY-L@coyote.csusm.edu Precedence: list Reply-To: Status: Dear Mary, Paul Turner has quite a bit to say about the possible sources for the book in his _The Life of Thomas Hardy_,Blackwell, 1998. Turner argues that "[a]s a 'Professed Story-teller', who sat in a chair--as if she were at her own fireside', Ethelberta was a revised version of Hardy's paternal grandmother, whose fireside stories had entranced him as a child" (51). Betty Cortus ========== Resent-Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 04:32:00 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: coyote.csusm.edu: list set sender to HARDY-L-request@coyote.csusm.edu using -f From: "Mary Medlicott" To: Subject: Re: Ethelberta Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:32:30 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Resent-From: HARDY-L@csusm.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2142 Reply-To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu X-Loop: HARDY-L@coyote.csusm.edu Precedence: list Reply-To: Status: Dear Betty Thanks so much for your reply to my query. I had seen Paul Turner's book and I agree that the idea of Ethelberta as a revised version of Hardy's grandmother is very interesting. But I still have a tantalising feeling that there may be something else lurking in the background - a professional storyteller, American or English, that Hardy might have encountered? Mary Medlicott Mary.Medlicott@cwcom.net ==========