Jean Hartley was an English autobiographer and publisher.
23 Facts About Jean Hartley
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Jean Hartley taught English at her former secondary school and lectured at the Hull College of Further Education.
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In 1995, Jean Hartley was made vice-chairman of the Philip Larkin Society to promote the life and works of her friend and poet Philip Larkin.
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Jean Hartley was on the steering committee of the Larkin 25 committee in 2010.
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Jean Hartley was born at Ivy Terrace, Constable Street, Hull, Yorkshire on 27 April 1933, to a poor working-class family.
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Jean Hartley's father was the iron foundry labourer William Manclin Holland and her mother was the domestic service worker Olive Holland, nee Simpson.
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Jean Hartley was raised in Hull's fishing community on Hessle Road, where she did library errands for her mother.
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At age 14, Jean Hartley was awarded a scholarship to go to Thoresby High School in Hull, studying "commercial" as one of three courses offered to her.
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Jean Hartley was made the magazine's co-editor and business manager, which gained national readership and featured contributions from The Movement poets such as Philip Larkin in its second edition.
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In 1965, Jean Hartley was impatient over how Larkin's poems were read by over-elocuted actors on the BBC Third Programme that she and her husband formed the record company Listen Records.
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Jean Hartley left Marvell Press the same year, to enroll on a course in English Literature at the University of Hull; Larkin set-up a grant scheme for her to live on, and wrote a reference for her entry into the university.
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Jean Hartley graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971.
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Jean Hartley graduated in 1972, and took up a job teaching English at the renamed Amy Johnson School.
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From 1974 to 1991, Jean Hartley lectured at the Hull College of Further Education.
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Jean Hartley published her autobiography, Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press, and Me, in 1989, and wrote the BBC Radio 4 programme The Wayward Girls that was broadcast on 4 November 1992, which discusses single parenthood in Hull during the 1950s.
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Jean Hartley promoted the poet's Frank Redpath and the poetry magazine editor Ted Tarling artistic ambitions.
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Jean Hartley was annoyed at the misportrayal of Larkin in the 1993 Andrew Motion biography Philip Larkin: a Writer's Life.
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Jean Hartley completed the topographical guide Philip Larkin's Hull and East Yorkshire in 1995, and was made vice-chairman of the Philip Larkin Society in the same year, editing the society's journal About Larkin.
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In 2002, Jean Hartley was a key figure in encouraging Maeve Brennan to author the book The Philip Larkin I Knew.
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Jean Hartley was on the steering committee of the Larkin 25 programme in 2010, which celebrated the life and works of Larkin on the 25th anniversary of his death with various celebrations in Hull.
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Jean Hartley enjoyed pottery and graphic art, with her work exhibited in Hull and at Beningbrough Hall.
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In January 2011, Jean Hartley received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Hull.
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Jean Hartley was cared at home by her daughters and granddaughter in her final years, and died on 18 July 2011, from heart failure at Victoria Avenue, Hull.