{"id":8785,"date":"2021-03-22T02:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T02:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8785"},"modified":"2021-03-22T02:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T02:01:04","slug":"recovered-a-keary-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2021\/03\/22\/recovered-a-keary-fairy-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovered: a Keary fairy-tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The literary Keary family had a home (homes?) somewhere around Trent Vale \/ Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, and Annie Keary’s children\u2019s novel Sidney Grey: A Tale of School Life<\/em> (1857) was said to have… “dealt with their [north] Staffordshire region and its brick-kilns” in the 1850s. This fact is also mentioned in a childhood memoir, Memoir of Annie Keary<\/em>… <\/p>\n

“On the other side a shady road [at Trent Vale], a church almost opposite the gate; beyond the church the village, and beyond the village, to give the needful inferno element, one or two brick kilns, whose ministers (the ‘ultimi Britanni’ [ancient Britons] of our [childhood] world) were evil-looking, dark-faced boys, terrible to speech or thought. These brick-kilns were introduced into one of the stories Aunt Annie wrote for us, which was afterwards published under the title of Sidney Grey<\/em>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the novel Sidney Grey: A Tale of School Life<\/em> (1857). Still no sign of this novel online, but there is now her novel Sidney Grey: A Year from Home<\/a><\/em> (1876). This is mostly set in “Dunstall, Staffordshire”, after the first few chapters, but with no mention of the brick yards. There is a short melodramatic episode of a rescue of some stray tots from a Hanley bottle-kiln, but that is clearly a ceramics factory. For this reason I suspect Sidney Grey: A Year from Home<\/em> is a sequel.<\/p>\n

No local colour in Sidney Grey: A Year from Home<\/em>, apart from the brief rescue from a pottery kiln. But half way through we do get an interlude in which there is something better than brick kilns… a long imaginative children’s fairy-tale from Annie Keary, “Through the Wood”. Here it is, extracted in PDF and OCR’d…<\/p>\n

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Download:<\/strong> keary-through-the-wood-ocr.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

This is not the same “Through the Wood” as the story in her collection Little Wanderlin, and other fairy tales<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The literary Keary family had a home (homes?) somewhere around Trent Vale \/ Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, and Annie Keary’s children\u2019s novel Sidney Grey: A Tale of School Life (1857) was said to have… “dealt with their [north] Staffordshire region and its brick-kilns” in the 1850s. This fact is also mentioned in a childhood memoir, Memoir of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}