Pease, Jane Gurney, 1827-1894, Juvenile Compositions, 1843-1846
- Call Number:
- MSS 6
- Creator:
- Pease, Jane Gurney, 1827-1894
- Title(s):
- Juvenile Compositions
- Date:
- 1843-1846
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series II: Exercise books
- Part of Collection:
- 3, folder 25
- Provenance:
- Acquired 2009, Paul Mellon Fund.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Scope and Content:
- This schoolbook is the joint project of four Pease sisters: Emma, Jane, Rachel, and Elizabeth. It contains various essays on topics such as who the best king of England was, and about the different seasons. All writing is in pen and black ink; a couple graphite sketches accompany one or two essays. Within the schoolbook, there are some creative compositions, including poems and “A Letter supposed to be written by the page of an English nobleman during the crusades to his sister at home, Ascalon (?), 1192.” A very unexpected 1845 essay on Hydropathy as a treatment (something that had only just debuted in England in about 1843), is written by Elizabeth Lucy. Rachel’s essay on “Winter” includes some poignant descriptions of “dirty” and “poor” children begging from door to door and avalanche victims in Switzerland. A graphite sketch of a rooster accompanies a piece on “the domestic cock” by Rachel Pease. All of the essay signatures indicate that they were written at Southend, the Darlington estate of Joseph Pease and the sisters’ childhood home. The girls were most likely educated here.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v. (76 p.); 20 x 24 cm.
- Genre:
- Exercise books, Pictorial works, Specimens. , Botanical illustrations, Children's art, Exercise books (Penmanship), Graphite drawings, Juvenilia, Landscape drawings, Sketchbooks, Travel sketches, and Watercolors (paintings)
- Subject Terms:
- Art, AmateurComposition (Language arts)EducationQuakersRailroadsSchool notebooksStudy and teaching
- Associated Places:
- EuropeGreat BritainMarske-by-the-Sea (England)ScotlandSwitzerlandYorkshire (England)
- Associated People/Groups:
- Gurney, Emma, ca. 1800-1860Hutton Hall (Guisborough, England)Pease familyPease, Edward Lloyd, 1861-1934Pease, Edward, 1767-1858Pease, Elizabeth Lucy, 1833-1881Pease, Emma Gurney, ca. 1830-1895Pease, Francis Richard, 1844-1865Pease, Helen Blanche, 1865-1951Pease, Henry, 1807-1881Pease, Jane Gurney, 1827-1894Pease, John Henry, 1836-1854Pease, Mary Cecelia, 1892-1975Pease, Mary W.Pease, Rachel, 1831-1912Pease, Sarah Charlotte, 1858-1929Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905
- Finding Aid Title:
- Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/23.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3300
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3300?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1