Cordelia Stamp

Mary Jane Linskill , the eldest of six surviving children, was born in a small house at Blackburns Yard, Whitby, in North Yorkshire.

From there she went on to a milliner's at Manchester (in Deansgate, say Quinlan and Humble), which these biographers identify as paid employment—whereas Cordelia Stamp , who gives the firm's name as Jewsbury and Cracks

Stamp says that ML 's favourite sibling was a brother five years younger, who died of typhus with a still younger brother when Mary was nine. Another brother, Thomas Henry , grew up to be...

Her biographer Cordelia Stamp writes: Had she written this book alone Mary Linskill's name would be worthy of a place in English literature.

Stamp felt that the second-hand nature of ML 's impressions here worked to this novel's disadvantage, giving it an air of artificiality.

Cordelia Stamp thought extremely highly of Pictures from Whitby.

For Pity's Sake, which appeared posthumously, was, says Cordelia Stamp , the last novel that ML wrote—or rather the last she worked at, revising it from an early story.

Late in her rather short life, ML said that her first childish attempts to express herself had been in rhyme, poetry it could not be termed by any stretch of courtesy. She then thought of...