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Marie Hartley Born 29 September 1905 Died 10 May 2006 (aged 100) Nationality British Occupation Author Known for Writer, illustrator and historian Marie Hartley (29 September 1905 – 10 May 2006) was the author or co-author and illustrator of some 40 books on the social history of the Yorkshire Dales.She was born into a prosperous family of wool merchants at Morley, near Leeds. She attended Leeds College of Art and then the Slade School in London, where she specialised in wood engraving. On her return to Yorkshire she settled in the market town of Wetherby. During the 1930s and 1940s she set up in partnership with a local writer, Ella Pontefract, illustrating books on the Dales and Yorkshire. The two women published six books on Yorkshire life and customs before Pontefract died in 1945.[1] Subsequently, Marie Hartley was joined by Joan Ingilby. Marie Hartley spent 75 years gathering material which related to disappearing rural traditions of Yorkshire. The women travelled across the county collecting stories, written material and artefacts, all of which they brought back to the 17th-century cottage they shared at Askrigg in Wensleydale. In the early 1970s they donated their collection to the former North Riding of Yorkshire County Council[2] In 1979 this gift formed the basis of the collection now housed in the Dales Countryside Museum at Hawes.[3]
Their masterpiece was Life and Traditions in the Yorkshire Dales (1968), although many rank The Old Hand Knitters of the Dales (1951) alongside it as a local history classic. The archive of their documents and photographs remains in the care of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, whose Silver Medal they won in 1993. Both were appointed MBE in 1997, and in 1999 received honorary degrees from the Open University. Ingilby died in 2000 aged 89.
Works
Works by or about Marie Hartley with Ella Pontefract and Joan Ingilby [4]
Title Date Publisher Swaledale by Ella Pontefract and Marie Hartley 1934 J.M. Dent & Sons Wensleydale by Ella Pontefract and Marie
Hartley.1936 J.M. Dent & Sons The Charm of Yorkshire Churches by Ella
Pontefract, sketches by Marie Hartley.1936 The Yorkshire Post Wharfedale by Ella Pontefract and Marie
Hartley.1938 J.M.Dent & Sons Yorkshire Tour by Ella Pontefract and Marie
Hartley.1939 J.M. Dent & Sons Yorkshire Cottage by Ella Pontefract and
Marie Hartley.1942 J.M. Dent & Sons Yorkshire Heritage, A Memoir to Ella
Pontefract, written and illustrated by Marie
Hartley.1950 J.M. Dent & Sons The Old Hand Knitters of the Dales by Marie
Hartley and Joan Ingilby.1951 The Dalesman Yorkshire Village by Marie Hartley and Joan
Ingilby.1952 J.M. Dent & Sons The Yorkshire Dales by Marie Hartley and
Joan Ingilby.1956 J.M. Dent & Sons The Wonders of Yorkshire by Marie Hartley
and Joan Ingilby.1959 J.M. Dent & Sons Yorkshire Portraits by Marie Hartley and Joan
Ingilby.1961 J.M. Dent & Sons Getting to Know Yorkshire by Marie Hartley
and Joan Ingilby.1963 J.M. Dent & Sons Life and Tradition in the Yorkshire Dales by
Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby.1968 J.M. Dent & Sons Life in the Moorlands of North and East
Yorkshire by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby.1972 J.M. Dent & Sons Shell Guide to East and North Ridings by
Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby.1974 Shell Publications Life and Tradition in West Yorkshire by Marie
Hartley and Joan Ingilby.1976 J.M. Dent & Sons A Dales Heritage by Marie Hartley and Joan
Ingilby.1982 The Dalesman The Origins of the Upper Dales Folk Museum
by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby.1984 Wensleydale Press Alexander Fothergill & and the Richmond
Turnpike Road, edited by Marie Hartley and
Joan Ingilby.1985 North Yorkshire
County Record
OfficeDales Memories, by Marie Hartley and Joan
Ingilby.1986 The Dalesman Yorkshire Album by Marie Hartley and Joan
Ingilby.1988 J.M. Dent & Sons Yorkshire Dales Wood Engravings by Marie
Hartley.1989 Smith Settle A Dales Album by Marie Hartley and Joan
Ingilby.1991 J.M. Dent & Sons Yorkshire Dales Wood Engravings - A Further
Selection.1991 Smith Settle Forms and Colours, Marie Hartley. 1992 Smith Settle A Farm Account Book from Wensleydale
edited by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby.1992 North Yorkshire
County Record
OfficePoems by Joan Ingilby, 1994 Smith Settle A Favoured Land, Yorkshire in Text and
Image, the work of Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby
and Ella Pontefract.1994 Smith Settle Marie Hartley's Picture Book 1995 Quince Tree Press Fifty Years in the Dales by Marie Hartley and
Joan Ingilby.1995 Smith Settle Marie Hartley : Wood Engravings by Marie
Hartley.1996 Smith Settle Making a Backcan 1997/8 Smith Settle The Harvest of a Quiet Eye: A Tribute to Marie Hartley MBE 2006 The Friends of the Dales Countryside Museum References
- ^ Wainwright, Martin (17 May 2006). "Obituary: Marie Hartley | Books | The Guardian". The Guardian (London: GMG). ISSN 0261-3077. OCLC 60623878. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/may/17/guardianobituaries.books. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
- ^ North Yorkshire County Council
- ^ "The Dales :: Marie Hartley MBE". thedales.org.uk. 2011 [last update]. http://www.thedales.org.uk/MarieHartleyMBE. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
- ^ "Amazon.co.uk: Marie Hartley: Books". amazon.co.uk. 2011 [last update]. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=books-uk&field-author=Marie%20Hartley. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
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