[DIALECTOLOGY]: JACKSON GEORGINA: (1824-1895)

[DIALECTOLOGY]: JACKSON GEORGINA: (1824-1895) English writer and schoolteacher who compiled a glossary of Shropshire dialect. A.L.S., Georgina F. Jackson, four pages, 8vo, Whitefriars, Chester, 29th October 1873, to Mr. Leighton. Jackson writes in order to procure some information for her book from her correspondent, ´I find in yr. Shropshire Flora the Convolvulus arvensis has the local name of "Devil´s Guts".....Will you tell me where in Co. Salop it is so called. Also, what are the water weeds wh: you told me were called roites or ryotts; and where they are known by that name?´, and also updates her correspondent on her progress with the work, ´I am now revising all my work and localizing the words as far as I can - a most troublesome thing to do, but I am trying to work in agreement with the English Dialect Soc: whose rule it is that the places shd. be specified where the words are known to be used´. Jackson further reports ´I was in London & Cambridge in July conferring.....with the Philological Soc. on the best manner.....and now I am carrying out their views as far as possible - but oh! the work it all involves. People calmly ask me when I shall finish the book - were they to ask when the book would finish me the question wd. be more à propos!´. VG

Jackson´s Shropshire Word-Book, including a grammar, was published in three parts from 1879-81 by Trubner & Co.