tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post7169432498450788152..comments2024-03-28T10:31:55.774-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: Up Hill and Down Dale: A Review of Kenneth Ashley's Death of a Curate (1932)The Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-31297483882019525692013-05-17T02:23:51.682-07:002013-05-17T02:23:51.682-07:00That "working class" background would ce...That "working class" background would certainly fit. The brothers George and Richard were Mansfield contractors in the 1920s.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-68115579896925234672013-05-16T19:44:06.420-07:002013-05-16T19:44:06.420-07:00My guess is that Kenneth Herbert Ashley was born i...My guess is that Kenneth Herbert Ashley was born in Dec 1885 at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Parents: Herbert (1852-1915) and Mary Eliza Ashley (1853-1924), in their late 30s when Kenneth was born. He had 2 older brothers, George Edgar, born in 1876, and Richard Ivan in 1879. This info comes from the British Birth Index, 1881 census and 1891 census (when Kenneth was 5), 1901 and 1911 census. By age 25 (1911 census), unmarried and living at home, he was working with his father as a stone mason. <br /><br />Kenneth died in Mar 1969, age 83, at Southwell, Nothinghamshire.Sensualpoethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17709398221022384265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-46702558304172038842013-05-10T00:44:23.110-07:002013-05-10T00:44:23.110-07:00Peggy Ann, oh I do wish you had gotten it! A proo...Peggy Ann, oh I do wish you had gotten it! A proof copy, how interesting. I have a copy in hardcover, which obviously is very rare, but I would allow it to be scanned for a publisher, if anyone wants to take me up on it. Let's hope!The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-26968367521355132812013-05-08T18:10:47.003-07:002013-05-08T18:10:47.003-07:00Tramp, I found a copy at Abebooks.co.uk It would h...Tramp, I found a copy at Abebooks.co.uk It would have been quite spending and it said this... 1st edition and good only with brown paper covers; fep has feint stamp of 'The St. Giles Printing Works, Norwich, on a fairly gruppy front endpaper: assume this must have been a proof copy. i thought I would email and ask your opinion first and went back to get the info to tell you and it was gone! ARGH! Someone who saw this blog post probably beat me to it:) Oh well, the search is part of the fun.Peggy Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00426356514707257708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-27337853498125184282013-05-08T14:53:44.163-07:002013-05-08T14:53:44.163-07:00Thanks, Roger, will check that out. I hope someon...Thanks, Roger, will check that out. I hope someone will take a chance and reprint it, for the sake of Peggy Ann and others. There are so many good, forgotten old books from the 1920s and 1930s that aren't being reprinted because of needless difficulties imposed by copyright laws.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-59043000218068664212013-05-07T17:46:05.768-07:002013-05-07T17:46:05.768-07:00I couldn't find it there, but thanks for the l...I couldn't find it there, but thanks for the link. I so want to read this now. it will be a lifelong search now!Peggy Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00426356514707257708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-27223525102025997772013-05-07T17:25:23.078-07:002013-05-07T17:25:23.078-07:00John Lane's correspondence from Herbert Ashley...John Lane's correspondence from Herbert Ashley- there doesn't seem to be any other Herbert Ashley published by the Bodley Head- are in the University of Texas archives http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00207.xml<br />Has anyone looked there?Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-38621290480130855732013-05-06T20:25:57.570-07:002013-05-06T20:25:57.570-07:00"Currently Death of a Curate cannot be reprin..."Currently Death of a Curate cannot be reprinted, because apparently no one knows anything about Kenneth Ashley after 1932 (oh! the vagaries of copyright law)."<br /><br />If there is no known copyright-holder and a publisher has made efforts to trace them, copyright fees can be paid into an escrow account until such time as the copyroght-holders can claim them.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-91792102810565598702013-05-05T21:49:51.257-07:002013-05-05T21:49:51.257-07:00There's a good bit, but it's much more rea...There's a good bit, but it's much more readable than, say, the Scots dialect in Sayers' The Five Red Herrings (at least if one is not Scottish). And it varies a great deal. Dawes has the slightest dialect, Bentley and the farmhands the most, but even their speech I didn't find too hard to follow. I thought the shadings were fascinating. This was a great regionalist crime story.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-58088560623067563822013-05-05T21:30:12.525-07:002013-05-05T21:30:12.525-07:00Is there much dialogue in dialect speech?Is there much dialogue in dialect speech?Keen Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18171491573514489497noreply@blogger.com