Chatterton Square

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The church is open to visitors from 8.30am until 5pm Monday to Saturdays or 9am until 4pm on bank holidays – go along to admire the church’s fine gothic architecture,learn more about its place in Bristol’s past and discover why it was a source of inspiration for Chatterton.

When the British Library announced the first three titles in their new Women Writers series, I was delighted see that one of them was Chatterton Square. I read this in 2010, spurred on by a reading in a book club of EH Young’s earlier novel Miss Mole. I’ve read several of her novels since then and all are brilliant, but this one stayed in my mind as particularly good. It was her last novel, published in 1947 when she was sixty, but set in the summer of 1939. While there is a statue of Chatterton in Millennium Square in Bristol, only the fragments of a monument to him that used to stand at St Mary Redcliffe church survive in a city museum. A competition is to be held to design a new monument, which will hopefully be erected within a few years. Chatterton Square – not really a square is more of an oblong – has seen better days. Still although fashion has deserted this small corner of Upper Radstowe, these are houses with small gardens, basement kitchens and some – like the Frasers – have balconies. The Frasers occupy a corner of Chatterton square – here live – Rosamund Fraser, her childhood friend Agnes Spanner and Rosamund’s five almost adult children. Agnes, we learn lived a sad, small diminished life with her controlling parents. So, with Rosamund’s husband; Fergus, choosing to live abroad, away from his family – Rosamund took the opportunity to save her friend – bringing her in to the warm, lively family she has never had for herself. War was horrible, but there were worse things. Indeed, in conditions of her own choosing, Miss Spanner would not have shrunk from it. The age for combatants, if she had the making of the conventions of war, would start at about forty-five and there would be no limit at the other end. All but the halt and the blind would be in it and she saw this army of her creation, with grey hairs and wrinkles under the helmets, floundering through the mud, swimming rivers, trying to run, gasping for breath, falling out exhausted or deciding it was time for a truce and a nice cup of tea. The former Peugeot garage is a key location on the corner of Clarence Road and Temple Gate, and also goes across Chatterton Street into Redcliffe. Dandara say they are now entering talks with city council planning officers to work on a scheme which could see as many as 400 new homes built there.Omnipresent as it was, the march toward war is not very pressing in the lives of the residents of Chatterton Square, nor nearly so engrossing as the changes growing up and growing older bring to each of them.

Controversy over who had authored his works followed his death, as few people believed they could be written by someone as young as Chatterton. Eventually, it was accepted that the Rowley poems were his and Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley would later be influenced by his story and writing. Kelly said: “His story raises more themes including artistic credulity and credibility, the role of the fake in art, young artists, arts and mental health, and the nature of celebrity.”

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a b c Angell, Shirley (1986). Pinnacle Club, A History of Women Climbing. United Kingdom: The Pinnacle Club. pp.6, 8, 21, 85. ISBN 0-9513967-0-6. A catalyst in these changing relationships is the appearance of the scene of Bertha’s cousin and erstwhile sweetheart Piers. Damaged in WW1, he is a gentle, intelligent man who has set up a business nearby and sells vegetables to the Upper Radstowe inhabitants. He and Rosamund form a loving and warm relationship. He would like to marry her, but she is forced to tell him that she already has a husband, though he has deserted her. She remembers Fergus with mixed feelings – he was difficult and unreliable, but they clearly had a powerfully physical relationship, which she cannot put out of her mind. As Piers passes between the two households, he provides another reason for Rhoda and later her mother to start visiting the Frasers. Chatterton’s death in August 1770 is shrouded in mystery. It has long been thought that he took his own life, but some modern academics believe it was an accident.

My first novel by E H Young. Young seems to have been an interesting character. Her writings centre on the Clifton area of Bristol, called Upper Radstowe in the novels. She was a supporter of suffrage and a keen climber and mountaineer. She had a lifelong relationship with Ralph Henderson, a friend of her husband’s. After her husband’s death in the War she moved in with Henderson and his wife. Chatterton left Bristol to pursue his writing career in London in April 1770. Just four months later, he died in what was once thought to be a suicide after his failure to find success and wealth but is now considered an accidental overdose. Either way, his death at such a tragically young age was part of what cemented his legacy as a romantic figure. Great book! I read it after seeing a plaque to EH Young on Saville Place in Bristol, then reading that some of her books, like Chatterton Square, are set in a fictionalised version of Clifton in Bristol, "Upper Radstowe". (I've found an article in the Evening Post archives that suggest Chatterton Square is actually Clifton's oddly triangular Canynge Square, and it would certainly be in about the right place for that to be true.) I am reading through less known British women authors who wrote in the first half of the 20th Century and this is my first E. H. Young novel. Chatterton was born in November 1752. A solitary, precocious child, he spent many hours reading and writing near a tomb in the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol.

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Barish, Mildred (10 August 1941). "New Readers' Guild Revives Books Public Overlooked". Los Angeles Times. pp.C6. The census collection is designed so that each group of postcodes should contain at least 100 people (50 in Scotland). Dandara’s plans for the Robins & Day Peugeot garage will be made public in early 2022, the company said. Chatterton was born in the schoolmaster’s house of Pile Street School in 1752. His father – a writing master at the school – died before his birth. The family moved away to a relation’shouse on Redcliffe Hill after Chatterton’s christening in 1753. He adopted the persona of an imaginary 15 th century monk, Thomas Rowley, and produced work – not only poems, but maps, letters, and even fake business accounts – in Rowley’s name.

He pitied widows, but he mistrusted them. They knew too much. As free as unmarried women, they were fully armed; this was an unfair advantage, and when it was combined with beauty, an air of well-being, a gaiety which, in a woman over forty had an unsuitable hind of mischief in it, he felt that ...all manhood was insulted ... But he knew how to protect himself." He briefly attended Pile Street School but was turned away as his teacher thought he was too ‘dull’ to keep up with lessons. A short time later he would become a precocious student at Colston School, fascinated by the medieval period. The setting for the novel is a rather shabby but still beautiful Georgian square in an area Young calls Upper Radstowe. All her seven novels take place here, and it’s closely based on Clifton, in Bristol, where she spent the early years of her adult life. If you know the area, as I do, this adds an additional pleasure (not that it needs one) as various characters walk up to the Downs or over the suspension bridge to the beautiful countryside on the far side.The political differences are drawn with too bold a stroke, there are no grey areas, and being overdone and lengthily hammered in, it becomes tedious. Emily Young was born in Whitley Bay, Northumberland, to Frances Jane Young and William Michael Young, a shipbroker. [1] Her sister, Gladys Young, became an actress. [2] Young attended Gateshead Secondary School and later Penrhos College, Colwyn Bay. Despite his accolade by some as the father of Romantic poetry, and the centuries of fascination that he’s held for poets, artists and musicians, he’s largely unknown in his home city,” said Kelly.