Marjorie Boulton (1924-2017)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/09/01/marjorie-boulton-esperanto-expert-poet-obituary/
Marjorie Boulton Prolific author and stalwart of the British Esperanto scene
- The Daily Telegraph -- 1 Sep 2017
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Wrote biography of Esperanto’s deviser
- The Daily Telegraph -- 1 Sep 2017
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Wrote biography of Esperanto’s deviser
Ludovic Zamenhof
MARJORIE BOULTON, who has died aged 93, was one of the world’s leading
“Esperantists”, an expert in the international language invented by Ludovic
Zamenhof in the 19th century as a way of promoting peaceful coexistence
between peoples and cultures.
She directed summer schools in Esperanto, wrote poetry in the language and
in 1960 published what is considered to be the definitive biography of
Zamenhof.
Zamenhof was born in the Polish part of imperial Russia in 1859 and died in
Warsaw in 1917, unaware that Esperanto would be suppressed not only by
Stalin and Hitler, but also by Lord Reith, the BBC’S first
Director-general, who banned mention of Esperanto on the network.
But the language, conceived by raiding from established European tongues
and based on simple grammar, phonetic spelling and regular word endings,
lived on. Indeed it has been listed in the world’s top 100 languages and
small groups of enthusiasts can be found all over the world.
In Britain, for reasons which remain obscure, one of the most energetic
Esperanto communities was to be found in the Potteries area of North
Staffordshire, where Marjorie Boulton was born at Burslem, Stoke-ontrent,
on May 7 1924.
The city’s first Esperanto club had been founded in 1909, and in the early
1950s the local mayor, Horace Barks, prompted several city schools to
include the teaching of Esperanto in the curriculum, and established an
annual summer school at Barlaston. He also persuaded the brewers Bass
Worthington to give a pub in the Smallthorne area the dual names of Green
Star and Verda Stelo. At one point the pub once had a large board in the
bar encouraging customers to use expressions such as bonan vesperon (“good
evening”) and gis revido (“goodbye”). Smallthorne, which boasts such street
names as Esperanto Way and Zamenhof Grove, was once known as Stoke’s
“Esperanto quarter”.
Marjorie read English at Somerville College, Oxford, where she was taught
by both CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, who was a supporter of Esperanto, and
became lifelong friends with Somerville contemporaries including Iris
Murdoch, Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley.
After graduation she taught English literature for many years at a teacher
training college, of which she became principal. As well as her works in
Esperanto she wrote 16 books in English, including a series of introductory
texts on literary genres, such as The Anatomy of Poetry (1953) and The
Anatomy of the Novel (1975), and a collection of poems, Preliminaries
(1949).
In 1949 she learned Esperanto and made her debut in the language through
the Belartaj Konkursoj, the movement’s annual fine arts competition. Her
first collection of Esperanto poems, Kontralte (“In Contralto”, 1955), was
followed by Kvarpieda kamarado (“Four-footed friend,” 1956), Cent
ghojkantoj (“One hundred songs of joy”, 1957), and Eroj (“Bits and pieces,”
1959). Virino che la landlimo (“Woman at the frontier”), a collection of
short plays and stories, also appeared in 1959, and she produced two
Esperanto short story collections. In collaboration with William Auld, she
produced Rimleteroj (“Rhyming letters”, 1964). Other works include Poeto
Fajrakora (1983), a study of the work of Gyulya Baghy, and Faktoj kaj
Fantazioj (“Facts and Fantasies”, 1984).
For many years she was director of the summer schools at Barlaston, served
as president of two Esperanto organisations and was a member of the
Esperanto Academy.
Announcing her death, Tim Owen of the Esperantoasocio de Britio wrote:
“Marjorie Boulton, inter la eminentaj de la Esperan topoetaro, forpasis en
la aĝo de 93 jaroj merkredon la 30a de Aŭgusto 2017.”
Marjorie Boulton, born May 7 1924, died August 30 2017
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Gene Keyes <gene.keyes@gmail.com> wrote:
MARJORIE BOULTON, who has died aged 93, was one of the world’s leading
“Esperantists”, an expert in the international language invented by Ludovic
Zamenhof in the 19th century as a way of promoting peaceful coexistence
between peoples and cultures.
She directed summer schools in Esperanto, wrote poetry in the language and
in 1960 published what is considered to be the definitive biography of
Zamenhof.
Zamenhof was born in the Polish part of imperial Russia in 1859 and died in
Warsaw in 1917, unaware that Esperanto would be suppressed not only by
Stalin and Hitler, but also by Lord Reith, the BBC’S first
Director-general, who banned mention of Esperanto on the network.
But the language, conceived by raiding from established European tongues
and based on simple grammar, phonetic spelling and regular word endings,
lived on. Indeed it has been listed in the world’s top 100 languages and
small groups of enthusiasts can be found all over the world.
In Britain, for reasons which remain obscure, one of the most energetic
Esperanto communities was to be found in the Potteries area of North
Staffordshire, where Marjorie Boulton was born at Burslem, Stoke-ontrent,
on May 7 1924.
The city’s first Esperanto club had been founded in 1909, and in the early
1950s the local mayor, Horace Barks, prompted several city schools to
include the teaching of Esperanto in the curriculum, and established an
annual summer school at Barlaston. He also persuaded the brewers Bass
Worthington to give a pub in the Smallthorne area the dual names of Green
Star and Verda Stelo. At one point the pub once had a large board in the
bar encouraging customers to use expressions such as bonan vesperon (“good
evening”) and gis revido (“goodbye”). Smallthorne, which boasts such street
names as Esperanto Way and Zamenhof Grove, was once known as Stoke’s
“Esperanto quarter”.
Marjorie read English at Somerville College, Oxford, where she was taught
by both CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, who was a supporter of Esperanto, and
became lifelong friends with Somerville contemporaries including Iris
Murdoch, Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley.
After graduation she taught English literature for many years at a teacher
training college, of which she became principal. As well as her works in
Esperanto she wrote 16 books in English, including a series of introductory
texts on literary genres, such as The Anatomy of Poetry (1953) and The
Anatomy of the Novel (1975), and a collection of poems, Preliminaries
(1949).
In 1949 she learned Esperanto and made her debut in the language through
the Belartaj Konkursoj, the movement’s annual fine arts competition. Her
first collection of Esperanto poems, Kontralte (“In Contralto”, 1955), was
followed by Kvarpieda kamarado (“Four-footed friend,” 1956), Cent
ghojkantoj (“One hundred songs of joy”, 1957), and Eroj (“Bits and pieces,”
1959). Virino che la landlimo (“Woman at the frontier”), a collection of
short plays and stories, also appeared in 1959, and she produced two
Esperanto short story collections. In collaboration with William Auld, she
produced Rimleteroj (“Rhyming letters”, 1964). Other works include Poeto
Fajrakora (1983), a study of the work of Gyulya Baghy, and Faktoj kaj
Fantazioj (“Facts and Fantasies”, 1984).
For many years she was director of the summer schools at Barlaston, served
as president of two Esperanto organisations and was a member of the
Esperanto Academy.
Announcing her death, Tim Owen of the Esperantoasocio de Britio wrote:
“Marjorie Boulton, inter la eminentaj de la Esperan topoetaro, forpasis en
la aĝo de 93 jaroj merkredon la 30a de Aŭgusto 2017.”
Marjorie Boulton, born May 7 1924, died August 30 2017
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Gene Keyes <gene.keyes@gmail.com> wrote:
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