Jean Hartley ( Holland; 27 April 1933 – 18 July 2011) was an English autobiographer and publisher. She and her husband George Hartley co-founded the publication company Marvell Press in 1954, which published volumes of poetry. They also founded the record company Listen Records. After Hartley separated from her husband and left Marvell Press, she earned degrees in English Literature and Victorian Studies from the University of Hull in the early 1970s. She taught English at her former secondary school and lectured at the Hull College of Further Education. In 1995, Hartley was made vice-chairman of the Philip Larkin Society to promote the life and works of her friend and poet Philip Larkin. She was on the steering committee of the Larkin 25 committee in 2010. The Hull History Centre holds a collection of items on Hartley's life and career. Early life Hartley was born at Ivy Terrace, Constable Street, Hull, Yorkshire on 27 April 1933, to a poor working-class family. Her father was the iron foundry labourer William Manclin Holland and her mother was the domestic service worker Olive Holland, née Simpson. Hartley was raised in Hull's fishing community on Hessle Road, where she did library errands for her mother. She was evacuated to a nearby Lincolnshire village during the Second World War and billeted with the local major; she felt unhappy because of "haughty upper-class voices and the one-eyed major and his tall, be-jodhpured sons strutted about carrying riding-crops, but the maid was kind. At age 14, Hartley was awarded a scholarship to go to Thoresby High School in Hull, studying "commercial" as one of three courses offered to her. After Hartley was compelled to find work, she dropped out of her education after one year to become a shorthand typist at a nominal wage with a small accountancy firm, ignoring advice from her mother to "settle down". She found extra inspiration from classes of the Workers' Educational Association of Richard Hoggart, describing herself in her teenage years as "insufferable working-class would-be intellectual: “What's that you're reading Jean?” “It's T S Eliot's The Waste Land, but you wouldn't understand it." Hartley was sent to a home for unmarried mothers after she gave birth to her first child in late 1951 when she was aged 17. Upon her return to Hull, she courted the art student George Hartley, whom she married on 24 August 1953. She had a daughter