Stimpson, F. (2016). Reading Gilbert White: W. D. Parish’s annotations of The Natural History of Selborne. Sussex Archaeological Collections 154. Vol 154, Sussex Archaeological Society. pp. 243-256. https://doi.org/10.5284/1086748. Cite this via datacite
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Reading Gilbert White: W. D. Parish’s annotations of The Natural History of Selborne | ||
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Sussex Archaeological Collections 154 | ||
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Sussex Archaeological Collections | ||
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243 - 256 | ||
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In his Introduction to the 1877 edition of Gilbert White’s classic text The natural history and antiquities of Selborne, Frank Buckland writes: ‘There is hardly a parish in England or Wales where the clergyman has not opportunities more or less favourable for writing a local “White’s Selborne”.’ The Reverend W. D. Parish (1833–1904), Vicar of Selmeston with Alciston (East Sussex) from 1863 until his death, took up the challenge by annotating his own copy of this edition of White’s work with observations of nature, life and customs around Selmeston which, like Selborne, sits within the South Downs. The annotations are chatty in style and often humorous, and give an insight into country life at the end of the 19th century, but they are not haphazard. Parish wrote an introduction giving his raison d’être for his work, and an index to his notes. The resulting book, which, re-bound in two volumes, he had had interleaved with blank pages on which he wrote his notes and added sketches and newspaper cuttings, was given to Parish’s old school, Charterhouse, soon after his death. It provides an opportunity to study an example of close reading and to observe the profound effect that a book can have on its readers. This article begins by comparing the lives of White and Parish and continues by examining and analysing the annotations. | ||
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2016 | ||
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28 Sep 2017 |
