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Jessie Mothersole
1873–1958
Best known for bringing landscape, history, and first-hand observation together, this English writer also trained as an artist and worked in archaeology. Her books on places such as the Isles of Scilly and Hadrian’s Wall have a clear, exploratory feel that still makes them inviting to read.
2 Audiobooks
Hadrian's Wall
by Jessie Mothersole
The Isles of Scilly : Their story, their folk & their flowers
by Jessie Mothersole
About the author
Born in Essex in 1873, Jessie Mothersole was an English archaeologist, artist, and author. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in the 1890s, where she won prizes for drawing and received a Slade Scholarship, and later worked with the artist Henry Holiday as his studio assistant.
Her writing often grew out of close looking—at landscapes, ruins, local life, and the visual details that an artist would notice. She is especially associated with books including The Isles of Scilly: Their Story, Their Folk & Their Flowers and Hadrian’s Wall, works that blend travel writing, history, and observation in a lively, accessible way.
Mothersole died in 1958. A suitable confirmed portrait image was not available from the sources I could verify here, so no profile image is included.