Ferrett, Mabel, 1917 - 2011
Dates
- Existence: 30 April 1917 - 28 January 2011
Biography
Mabel Ferrett was a poet and local historian, born Mabel Frankland in Ossett, West Yorkshire in 1917. She was one of the founding members of the Pennine Poets group, formed in Elland, West Yorkshire in 1966. She edited the groupe's journal, Pennine Platform, from 1973 to 1976 and was the editor of the literary journal Orbis from 1978 to 1980.
Following her marriage, in 1947, to Harold Ferrett, a solicitor, Mabel moved to Heckmondwike. She wrote articles for local magazines, and, in 1976, received the Julia Cairns award for poetry from the Society of Women Writers and Journalists, one of many prizes in her career. In 1996 Salzburg University published her selected poems as Scathed Earth. Her last collection, Imaginary Gates, was published in 2001. Her autobiography, After Passchendaele, came out in 2003. To celebrate the Pennine Poets' 40th anniversary in 2006, she wrote a history of the group, Spirit and Emotion.
She established the Fighting Cock Press to publish work by the Pennine Poets and other northern authors.
Mabel Ferrett died in 2011.
[Source: some notes from Guardian Obituary published 17 February 2011.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Fighting Cock Press / Pennine Poets Archive
The collection consists of documents relating to Fighting Cock Press and Pennine Poets, and includes proofs of many poems, correspondence, grant applications, log books, photographs, illustrations and cover art. There is also a collection of books published by Fighting Cock Press, and of issues of Pennine Platform, the journal of Pennine Poets.
For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.