Agnes Stansfield [1901-1985]

Please help me to find information about the late Agnes Stansfield
who lived in Alderley Edge perhaps from 1920 to 1930. When she attended
university in London from 1920-1924 she gave her address as Glenholme,Trafford Road Alderley Edge, Cheshire. However when she attended the University of Manchester for graduate studies from 1930-32 and in the forward of her 1944 book on the German poet Hölderlin she gives her residence as Chelford Cheshire. She did teach at the Stockport
High School for Girls part time from 1934 and full time from 1944 to her
retirement in 1966. She was in Maccesfield at the time of her death
in October 1985 at age 84 She lived as a child on the family farm near the village of Woodhouses and her family operated a confectioner’s shop. I believe her father Robert Stansfield died in 1945 and he may be buried near Alderley Edge. She may also be buried there as she never married. From the map available to me these communities appear to be in the very same district.

I hope to include Agnes Stansfield in a report of English writers who
specialized in German literature and helped to make Friedrich Hölderlin [1770-1843] accessible to readers of English.

If you knew Agnes Stansfield or know of surviving relatives and the place and dates of her birth and death please let me know.
. I am a retired Canadian civil servant and I am trying to translate Hölderlin’s poems written while he was a seminarian. It was the 1944 book by Agnes Stansfield that helped me appreciate the merit of these poems.

Thank you for your interest.
Jim Devin
Bradford Ontario
Canada

I have some effects from Agnes Stansfield, which were inherited by my Mother-in-Law on her death. My in-Laws were friends of Robert and Agnes, who had no family so left their estate to them. Please contact me if they are of any use/interest.
Roger Hart

Roger Hart

Thank you for your response to my query. I would indeed appreciate if you would contact me by email.
My email is

It has been some time since my original post but I am still interested. I did find a record of her death when I was in England last September.

Good Morning Mr Devin, I note you post is 10 years old, but I only came across it today. I am a collector of antique telephones and in 1985 I purchased a telephone made in 1956 (which I still have) that was in installed at “Glenholme”, Trafford Road, Alderley Edge. The accompanying directory card (which dates from March 1966) is addressed to “R.Stansfield Esq.” of that address. Along with it is a slip of paper (that could have been cut from a letterhead) which gives the number of Stockport High School. So it looks like the family still lived at Glenholme in 1966 and possibly as late as 1985, as the telephone was probably in service until shortly before I bought it. I hope this message reaches you and I would be very interested to hear more about Ms Stansfield. Best Regards, Lee.

Further to my last post, I have cross referenced the number for “Stockport High School” on the paper slip that came with the telephone and it indeed corresponds to the listing for “Stockport High School for Girls” given in the 1948 telephone directory for that area.