Lancashire Dialect

DING 2013: “She was born in Carlow, Ireland. She lived for a long time in Rochdale, Lan. She was one of the four dialect writers to be included in the monument to Lancashire dialect writers in Rochdale.”

Not in Leclaire (1954)

Works

The Sporting Party and Owd Neddy Fitton's Visit to the Earl of D-Y [Derby]; a True Lancashire Sketch [in the Lancashire Dialect]. 1859. Rochdale and Manchester [printed]. EDD Lan.

Acquitted Though Guilty; or the Tenant of Wild Bank. A Lancashire Story. 1883. Manchester: A. Heywood and Son. EDD Lan.

Betty o’ Yep’s Laughable Tale of Jinny Cropper at th’ Halton Feast. 1865. Manchester: Printed by J. Heywood; London: F. Pitman. SC. EDD Lan.

Kelup's Kersmas Goose. 1871.

Next of Kin. A Humorous Dialogue, Etc. 1880. Abel Heywood & Son's Series of Original Dramas, Dialogues & Readings; No. 63: Manchester.

Sybil West. A Lancashire Story. Subscribers' ed: Oldham, 1892.

Tim Bobbin's Adventure with the Irishman; or Raising the Dead by the Art of Freemasonry: A Lancashire Tale. 1860.  Manchester: J. Heywood; London: Simpkin, Marshall. SC. EDD Lan.

Tim Bobbin's Centenary. A Ghostly Conversation in Verse. Manchester: J. Heywood, 1886.

Trot Coffie's Boggart: A Lancashire Ghost Story. 1882. Manchester: J. Heywood. EDD Lan.

Owd Yem Un His Five Daughters...A True Lancashire Sketch. Manchester. 1861. EDD Lan.

Esther Brella’s Divvy, an’ what hoo did wi’ it. [n.d.] Manchester. EDD Lan.

The Bewitched Teapots. [n.d.] Manchester. EDD Lan.

How Bob Manock geet to th’ Cheermon o’ th’ Henpeck’d Club. We th’ Rules un Regulations. By a Member. [n.d.] Manchester. EDD Lan.

The Carter’s Struggles; Showing hoe Jone o’ Jeffrey’s Wortched to Bring Up his Family Gradely. [n.d.] Manchester. EDD Lan.

Not in Kingkong Project

For further information about her life and works, see:

Newbigging, Thomas. 1901. Lancashire Humour. London: J. M. Dent & Co. 20-21

http://www.vads.ac.uk/flarge.php?uid=75534

http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/rochdale.html

http://www.tarynhakala.com/research.php

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