Dialect literature
1800-1950
lancashire Prose
Author: John Trafford Clegg (1857-1895)
Text type: Prose, verse & drama
Date of composition: 1895, 1896, 1898
Editions: 1895
Source text:
Clegg, John Trafford. The Works of John Trafford Clegg [“Th’ Owd Weighver”] Stories, Sketches, and Rhymes in the Rochdale Dialect. Rochdale: Printed by James Clegg, “The Aldine Press”.
e-text:
Access and transcription: March 2011
Number of words: 217, 393
Dialect represented: Lancashire
Produced by Javier Ruano-García
Copyright © 2011-DING, The Salamanca Corpus, Universidad de Salamanca
LITERARY DIALECTS
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Lancashire Drama
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Brierley, Benjamin
Buttercup, Sammy
Clegg, John Trafford
Ferguson, Charlotte
Kershaw, Tom
Lahee, Margaret
Ormerod, Oliver
Robinson, Roper
Scholes, James C.
Waugh, Edwin
Lancashire Verse
Lancashire Varia
The Works of John Trafford Clegg [“Th’ Owd Weighver”] Stories, Sketches, and Rhymes in the Rochdale Dialect (1895)
