Find below a sketch of the most representative canonical writers who used dialect in their works.

The information is based on

. Blake, Norman. 1981. Non-Standard Language in English Literature. London:

            André Deutsch.

. Eckhardt, Edouard. 1910-11.  Die Dialekt- und Ausländertypen des älteren

        Englischen Dramas. Materialen zur Kunde des älteren Englishen Dramas, nos

        27 & 32. Louvain: A. Uystpruist 32, Ausländertypen, 49.

. Leclaire, Lucien. 1954. A General Analytical Bibliography of the Regional Novelists of the British Isles 1800-1950. Paris: Les Belless Lettres.

. Wright, Joseph. 1998-1905. English Dialect Dictionary. Vol. 6: Bibliography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ainsworth, William (1805-1882). Lancashire.

        . The Lancashire Witches. 1849

Barnes, William (1801-1886). Dorsetshire.

. Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect. 1844.

. Hwomely Rhymes; A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect. 1859.

. Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset dialect. A Third Collection. 1863. 

Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931). Staffordshire.

        . Anna of the Five Towns. 1902.

        . Tales of the Five Towns. 1905.

        . The Grim Smile of the Five Towns. 1907.

        . Clayhanger. 1910.

        . The Matador of the Five Towns. 1912.

        . etc.

Brome, Richard (1590?-1653)

       . A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars. 1652.

        . The Late Lancashire Witches.1634.

        . The Northern Lass. 1632.

Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)

. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 1848. Yks.

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

. Shirley. 1849. Yks.

Brontë, Emily J. (1818-1848)

. Wuthering Heights. 1847. Yks.

Congreve, William (1670-1729)

        . Love for Love. 1817. In R. Cumberland, ed. The British Drama...

Dekker, Thomas (1572-1632)

        . The Bellman of London. 1608.

        . English Villainies.

        . The Gull’s Horn-Book.

        . The Shoemaker’s Holiday, or the Gentle Craft. 1600.

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

        . Pickwick Papers. 1837.

        . Nicholas Nickleby. 1838.

        . Oliver Twist. 1838.

        . Barnaby Rudge. 1841.

        . Martin Chuzzlewit. 1844.

        . Dombey and Son. 1848.

        . David Copperfield. 1850.

        . Bleak House. 1853.

        . Great Expectations. 1861.

        . Our Mutual Friend. 1865.

Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849)

       . Castle Rackrent. 1800. London: J. Johnson. Irl.

        . Love & Law.

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

. Adam Bede. 1859. Edinburgh: Blackwood & Sons. Midl.

. The Mill on the Floss. 1860. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. Midl.

. Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe. Edinburgh & London: Blackwood & Sons. Midl.

. Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life. 1871. Edinburgh & London: W. Blackwood & Sons. Midl.

Etherege, Sir George ()

        . The Comical Revenge or Love in a Tub.

        . Everyman.

        . Exmoor Courtship.

Fielding, Henry ()

        . Jonathan Wild.

        . Joseph Andrews.

        . Tom Jones.

Gaskell, Elisabeth C. (1810-1865)

. Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life. 1848. London: Chapman & Hall. Lan.

. North and South. 1855. London: Chapman & Hall. Lan., Hmp.

. Sylvia’s Lovers. 1863. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Yks.

. Wives and Daughters. 1864-6. Published in the Cornhill Magazine. Unfinished. Chs.

Goldsmith, Oliver ()

        . She Stoops to Conquer

Greene, Robert ()

       . The Art of Conny Catching

        . The Scottish Hsitory of James VI

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

. Desperate Remedies. A Novel. 1871. London: Tinley Bros.

. Under the Greenwood Tree. 1872. London: Tinley Bros.

. A Pair of Blue Eyes. 1873. London: Tinley Bros.

. Far from the Madding Crowd. 1874. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

. The Hand of Ethelberta, a Comedy in Chapters. 1876. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

. The Trumpet Major. 1880. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

. Two on  a Tower. A Romance. London: Trübner & Co.

. The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

. The Woodlanders. 1887. London: Macmillan & Co.

. Wessex Tales, Strange, Lively and Commonplace. 1888. London: Macmillan & Co.

. Tess of d’Urbervilles, a Pure Woman, Faitfully Represented. 1891. London: J.R. Osgood, M’Ilvaine & Co.

. Jude the Obscure. 1895. London: Macmillan & Co.

Heywood, Thomas ()

       . The Late Lancashire Witches.

Howard, Sir Robert ()

        . The Committee.

Lawrence, D. H. ()

        . Sons and Lovers.

        . The London Prodigal.

Middleton, Thomas ()

        . The Family of Love.

Munday, John ()

        . Sir John Old Castle.

Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

        . Ballads from the Border Minstrels.

        . The Heart of Mid-Lothian. 1818.

        . Ivanhoe. 1819.

        . The Monastery.

Shadwell, Thomas ()

        . The Lancashire Witches.

        . The Squire of Alsatia.

Skelton, John ()

        . Merry Tales by Master Skelton.

        . The Tynnyng of Elynour,

Tennyson,  Lord Alfred ()

        . Northern Farmer.

        . Old Style.

Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882)

. The Warden. 1855. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. Barsetshire.

. Barchester Towers. 1857. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. Barsetshire.

. Dr. Thorne. 1858. London: Chapman & Hall. Barsetshire.

. Framley Parsonage. 1860-1. Published serially in the Cornhill Magazine. Barsetshire.

. The Small House at Allington. 1862-4. Published serially in the Cornhill Magazine and the Harper’s Magazine. Barsetshire.

. The Last Chronicle of Barset. 1866. NY: Harper. Barsetshire.

. Orley Farm. 1861-2. First published in Harper’s Monthly. Barsetshire.

. The Belton Estate. 1865-6. First published in Fortnightly Review. Barsetshire.

. Rachel Ray. 1863. London: Chapman & Hall. Barsetshire.

. The Vicar of Bulhampton. 1869. London: Chapman & Hall. Barsetshire.

Udall, Nicholas (1504-1556)

           . Ralph Roister Doister.

Vanbrugh, Sir John ()

            . A Journey to London.

            . The Provok’d Wife.

            . The Relapse.

Waugh, Evelyn ()

            . Decline and Fall.

            . The Weakest Goeth to the Wall.