Georgina Frederica Jackson

Georgina Frederica Jackson was born on 31 March 1824 in Everton, Liverpool. She was the fifth child of William Jackson, a wine merchant, and Dorothy Comberback. Her father was originally from Shropshire, and the family moved to rural mid-Shropshire by 1833 or 1834. By 1851, Jackson was teaching drawing in Chester to support her widowed mother. She rose to be a school teacher, and eventually ran a school for young ladies. == Dialect work ==

In 1870, whilst running the school, she compiled a list of Shropshire dialect words she remembered from her childhood. A friend convinced her to increase the scope of her work. She spent her holidays travelling the county, collecting words, and wrote in the evenings. These 'dialecting tours' were a precursor of modern spoken corpora collection methods. The Shropshire Word-Book, including a grammar, was published in three parts from 1879 to 1881 by Trubner and Co. Jackson passed her notes on Shropshire folklore to her friend Charlotte Burne. Burne edited these and they were published in 1883, acknowledging Jackson's role in its creation. == Later life ==

Jackson was granted a civil-list pension in 1880 which enabled her to retire from teaching. and is buried in the local cemetery. == References ==