Lancashire Dialect

Works

A View of the Lancashire Dialect. 1746. Manchester: Printed and sold by R. Whitworth. SC. EDD Lan.

A View of the Lancashire Dialect. 1748. Leeds: Printed and sold by James Lister. SC. Not              

       in EDD.

Lancashire Hob and the Quack Doctor. In Collier, John. 1763. Tim Bobbin’s Toy-Shop Open’d or, his Whimsical Amusements. Joseph Harrap: Manchester. Not in EDD

Not in KingKong Project

For Further Information about his life and works, see:

Briscoe, J. Potter. 1898. “Tim Bobbin. Lancashire humorist: A bibliographical note”. The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society s1-X.1: 308-309.

Burman, Lionel. 1980. “Rochdale: Enter Tim Bobbin...” The Burlington Magazine 122.927: 449-452.

Geshwind, M. 1995. “Tim Bobbin’s “Lancashire Hob and the Quack Doctor”. Journal of the History of Dentistry 43.3: 119-123.

Haworth, Peter. 1920. “The language of Tim Bobbin”. Manchester Quarterly, 113-126.

Haworth, Peter. 1927. “A Lancashire classic and its dialect”. In Haworth, Peter (ed.). English Hymns and Ballads and Other Studies in Popular Literature. Oxford: Blackwell. 58-70.

Horgan, D. M. 1997. “Popular protest in the eighteenth-century: John Collier (Tim Bobbin), 1708-1786”. The Review of English Studies 48.191: 310-331.

http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/5/101005919/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Collier_%28caricaturist%29

http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=4457&language=eng

Wagner, Tamara. 1999. “John Collier’s ‘Tummus and Meary’. Distinguishing features of 18th-century southeast Lancashire dialect – morphology”. Bulletin of the Modern Language Society 100: 191-205.

Whitehall, Harold. 1929. “Tim Bobbin again”. Philological Quarterly 8: 395-405.

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