Jessie Fothergill
(1851-1891)

novelist

Died aged c. 40

Jessie Fothergill (June 1851 – 28 July 1891) was an English novelist. Her novel The First Violin sold particularly well.

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Littleborough, United Kingdom

Jessie Fothergill (1851-1891) novelist who captured the lives of working people in the local cotton mills in the 19c. lived for some years in a house nearby (now demolished)

New England Furniture Shop, Todmorden Road, Littleborough, United Kingdom where they lived