dialect literature 1800-1950 lancashire prose

dialect literature

1800-1950

lancashire prose

Author: Oliver Ormerod (1811-1879)

Text type: Prose

Date of composition: 1856

Editions: 1851, 1853, 1856, 1864, 1901

Source text:

Ormerod, Oliver. 1856. O Ful Tru un Pertikler Okeawnt... Third Edishun. In The Works of Oliver Ormerod. 1901. Rochdale: Printed and Published by James Clegg, The Aldine Press.

e-text:

Access and transcription: December 2009

Format: MS Word pdf

Number of words: 29,636

Dialect represented: Lancashire

Produced by Javier Ruano-García

O Full Tru un Pertikler Okeawnt o bwoth wat Aw seed un wat Aw yerd we gooin to Th’ Greyt Eggsibishun

(1856)

DIALECT LITERATURE

The Northern Counties

1500-1700

1700-1800

1800-1950

The Northern Counties

Lancashire Drama

Lancashire Prose

Anonymous

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 East Midland Counties

The West Midland Counties

The Southern Counties