Cumberland Dialect

Works

Clarke, James. A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire: together with an account, historical, topographical and descriptive, of the adjacent country. To Which is added, a sketch of the border laws and customs. 1789.

Ritson, Isaac. c.1850. A Copy of a Letter, written by a Young Shepherd to his Friend in Borrowdale with a Glossary of the Cumberland Words. Whitehaven: Callander and Dixon.

Ritson, Isaac. 1866. A Copy of a Letter, written by a Young Shepherd to his Friend in Borrowdale with a Glossary of the Cumberland Words. Whitehaven: Callander and Dixon.

Not in KingKong Project

For Further Information about his life and works, see:

http://words.fromoldbooks.org/Chalmers-Boigraphy/r/ritsonn-isaac.html

http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/23/101023683/

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ritson,_Joseph_(DNB00)

   “Ritson has been wrongly credited with a well-executed translation of the ‘Hymn to Venus’ ascribed to Homer, 1788, 8vo. This is the work of Isaac Ritson (1761–1789), native of Emont Bridge, near Penrith, who became a schoolmaster at Penrith and a competent classical scholar. Subsequently he attended medical classes at Edinburgh, and finally settled in London, where he contributed medical articles to the ‘Monthly Review.’ Besides the ‘Hymn,’ Isaac Ritson wrote the preface, and much besides, of James Clarke's ‘Survey of the Lakes in Cumberland’ (1787). His friends predicted for him a distinguished literary career; but he died prematurely at Islington in 1789, aged 28. He was not related to the better known Joseph (Gent. Mag. 1803, ii. 1031; Hutchinson, Cumberland).”

(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dictionary_of_National_Biography_volume_48.djvu/337)

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