Notes on Two European Scholars of William Hale White: Hans Klinke and Ursula Buchmann

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 17; p. 123
• Main Author: Jacobs, Nicholas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2013
• Subjects: Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
• ISSN: 0954-0970

[...]as I understand, Klinke kept the copy Dorothy made for him, so by some miracle it could still exist today. Because 'The Dorothy Book' doesn't seem to be much quoted, let me instance one passage of vintage Hale White. (Klinke, p. 130) Klinke quotes much about the relationship between Hale White and Dorothy from 'Groombridge Diary', but nothing as revealing as the following from 'The Dorothy Book': Dorothy and I are wife and husband as intimately and strictly as it is possible to be, if the relationship involves no ecclesiastical or legal sanction or bodily union. The love is perhaps the closer because it is love and nothing else, (written by White in April 1910; Klinke, p. 132) Ursula Buchmann, William Hale White (Mark Rutherford) and the Problem of Self-Adjustment in a World of Changing Values (Zurich: Juris-Verlag, 1950) Ursula Clare Buchmann was bom in Switzerland (St Gallen) in 1920, the daughter of a Swiss father and an English mother. The main purpose of the present treatise is, not to judge the several books according to their artistic merit or demerit (even if we may point to certain features by the way), but to attempt a more or less systematic survey of the methods and theories Hale White suggests (and personally proves as valid in his own life) as leading in some measure to harmony through self-adjustment in a world of changing values.