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Eliza Gutch (née Hutchinson) (1840-1931) was an English author, contributor to Notes and Queries,[1] and founding member of the Folklore Society. She made immense contributions to the establishment of folklore and dialect studies.
Eliza Gutch | |
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Born | Little Gonerby-cum-Manthorpe, Lincolnshire, England | 15 July 1840
Died | 17 March 1931 90) Holgate Lodge, York, England | (aged
Occupation | Writer, folklorist |
Nationality | English |
Period | 19th century |
Genre | Folklore |
Gutch was born on 15 July 1840, at Manthorpe Lodge in Little Gonerby-cum-Manthorpe, Lincolnshire, as Eliza Hutchinson. Her father, Simon Hutchinson, was a land agent in Little Gonerby.[2]
On 22 January 1868, she married York solicitor John James Gutch.[1] They had four children: Bertha (b. 1869), John (b. 1870), Wilfrid (b. 1871), and Clement (1875-1908). She was widowed in 1881.
Gutch had an abiding interest in the history and folklore of the region of England in which she lived. She was a founder member of the English Dialect Society in 1873, and a prolific contributor to the journal Notes and Queries under the pseudonym "St Swithin", a reference to her date of birth.[1] It was from her suggestion in a February 1876 issue of Notes and Queries that the Folklore Society was formed in 1878, with Gutch as a founder member.[1]
Her knowledge of folklore was utilised by Joseph Wright in his English Dialect Dictionary, to which she contributed her findings on the folklore of both Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.[1] Gutch herself collected the materials for, and edited three volumes of, the County Folklore series, and wrote a number of shorter articles on folklore.[3] [4]
Eliza Gutch was the last private owner of Holgate Windmill, and her children sold the Mill on her death to the City of York Council for preservation as a historic site. She died at Holgate Lodge on 17 March 1931.
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