Lancashire Dialect

Leclaire (1954: 118): “Born at Rochdale. The son of a shoe-maker. Self-taught. Notable for his rendering of the dialect. Best when he paints moorland life, in the Pennines. His stories are many, but mostly in the Lancashire dialect.”

Works

Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities. 1855. London: Whittaker & Co. SC. EDD Lan.

Rambles in the Lake Country and its Borders. 1857. Manchester: John Heywood. EDD Lan.

Th’ Barrel Organ. 1862. Manchester: John Heywood. EDD Lan.

Lancashire Songs. 1865. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. EDD Lan.

Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine. 1867. Reprinted from the Manchester Examiner and Times of 1862.  EDD Lan.

Poesies from a Country Garden: Selections from the Works of Edwin Waugh. 1866. Manchester: John Heywood. Not in EDD.

KingKong Project

10126Home-Life Of The Lancashire Factory Folk..Cotton Famine [n|(?)/1867]

15986Th' Barrel Organ [?]

For Further Information about his life and works, see:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/28/101028901/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Waugh

http://gerald-massey.org.uk/waugh/index.htm

http://www.edwinwaughdialectsociety.com/

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Waugh,_Edwin_%28DNB00%29

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