dialect literature

1800-1950

lancashire prose


 
 
 

Anonymous

. Mr. Councillor Semitery’s Hoff . 1868.

. The Famine Fast Day. 1871.


Brierley, Benjamin (1825-1896)

. Gooin’ to Cyprus. 1850.

. Ab-o’th-yate at the Isle of Man. 1869.


. Brooks, Joseph Barlow (1874-1952)

Just Fancy! and Other Talks to Boys and Girls. 1926. London: Epworth Press.

Songs of Remembrance. By a Lancashire Lad. 1936. Halifax: J.T. Rushworth & Son.

The Epistle of James in Lancashire Dialect. 1936. Stalybridge: Geo. Whittaker & Sons.

Th’ Amazin’ Stories o’ th’ Bible (i’ th’ Lankisher Dialect). 1937. Stalybridge: Geo. Whittaker & Sons. SC.

Noah Th’ Boat Buildther (in Lancashire Dialect). 1951. Oxford: The Church Army Press, Cowley. SC.

Th’ Good News Accordin’ to Mark. Arrang’t an’ Thranscrib’t...i’ th’ Lankisher Dialect. 1938. Oxford: The Author.

Solomon’s Song of Songs, in Lancashire Dialect. 1939. Oxford: The Author.

Ecclesiastes, in Lancashire Dialect. 1944. Heddington: The Author.

Pilkington’s Factory Stories of Last Century. 1950. Oxford: The Church Army Press, Cowley.

Chaucer’s Cock, and Other Fables. In Lancashire Dialect. 1951. Oxford: The Author.

Jonah in Three Acts. 1951. Oxford: The Author.


Buttercup, Sammy (?-?)

. Lancashire Sketches: Poor Widow Smith . 1893.


Brooks, Joseph Barlow (1874-1952)

. Th’ Amazin’ Stories o’ th’ Bible (i’ th’ Lankisher Dialect).1937.

. Noah Th’ Boat Buildther (in Lancashire Dialect). 1951.


Clegg, John Trafford (1857-1895)

. The Works of John Trafford Clegg [“Th’ Owd Weighver”] Stories, Sketches, and Rhymes in the Rochdale Dialect. 1895. Rochdale: James Clegg.


Ferguson, Charlotte (?-?)

. Jim Wilson’s Resolve and What Came of it: A Lancashire Temperance Tale. 1865.


Kershaw, Tom (?-?)

. Tummus an’ Meary modernised; being a Rendering into the Lancashire Venacular of the Present Time, of Tim Bobbin’s Famous Production, “The Laughable Adventures of a Lancashire Clown” (187?)


Lahee, Margaret (1831-1895)

. Tim Bobbin’s Adventure with the Irishman (1860)

. Betty o’Yeps Laughable Tale of Jinny Cropper at th’ Halton Forest (1865)


Ormerod, Oliver (1811-1879)

. O Full Tru un Pertikler Okeawnt o bwoth wat Aw seed un wat Aw yerd we gooin to Th’ Greyt Eggsibishun e Lundun (1856)


Robinson, Roper (1836-1908)

. Forness Folk, the’r Sayin’s an’ Dewin’s; or Sketches of Life and Character in Lonsdale North of the Sands (1870)


Scholes, John (1808-1863)

. Tim Gamwattle's Jawnt, e Ab o'-Dick's o th' Doldrum's waggin, wi o whul waggin full o foak, fro Smobridg to Manchester, o seein't Quene, wi just o wap ut th' Eggsibishun; o gradely funny teyle fur o winter foyar soide. (1857)

. Abrum o’ Flups Quortin and Weddin; Written by Ab Hissel (1867)


Staton, James Taylor (1816-1875)

. Cures for th’ Toothwertch (186?)


Waugh, Edwin (1817-1890)

. Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities (1855)


 

Lancashire Prose

1800-1950

 

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