Yorkshire Dialect

Works

Yorksher Puddin’. A collection of the most popular dialect stories from the pen of John           

    Hartley. 1877. Wakefield: W. Nicholson. EDD West Riding of Yks.

Grimes's Trip To America. 1877 London: W. Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

Yorkshire Ditties; by John Hartley; to which is added the cream of with and humour from

   his popular writings. First Series. n.d. [1890?]. Wakefield: W. Nicholson. EDD West  

   Riding of Yks.

Yorkshire Ditties; by John Hartley; to which is added the cream of with and humour from his popular writings. Second Series. n.d. [1890?]. Wakefield: W. Nicholson. SC. EDD West Riding of Yks.

Grimes' Visit To Th' Queen. 1892. London: W. Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of

   Yks.

Yorkshire Tales. Amusing Sketches of Yorkshire Life. In the Yorkshire Dialect.First Series.

   n.d. London: W. Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

Yorkshire Tales. Amusing Sketches of Yorkshire Life. In the Yorkshire Dialect.Second Series.

   n.d. London: W. Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

Yorkshire Tales. Amusing Sketches of Yorkshire Life. In the Yorkshire Dialect. Third Series.

   n.d. London: W. Nicholson & Sons.  Not in EDD.

Yorkshire Lyrics. Poems Written in the dialect as spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire: To

  which are added a selection of fugitive verses not in the dialect. 1898. London: W.

  Nicholson & Son. . Not in EDD.

Mally An' Me. 1902. London: W. Nicholson & Sons. Not in EDD.

Seets I' Yorkshire And Lancashire or Grimes Comical Trip from Leeds to Liverpool by

   Canal. n.d. London: William Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

Seets I’ Blackpool Fleetwood, Lytham, and Southport as seen by Sammywell Grimes an’ his

  wife Mally on ther Hallyday trip, wi’ a few incidents an’ accidents ‘at occurred. n.d.  

  London: William Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

Seets I’ Lundun. A Yorkshireman’s ten days’ trip. n.d. 1876. London: W. Nicholson &

   Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

Seets I' Paris. Sammywell Grimes’s trip with his old chum Billy Baccus: His opinion o’ th’

  French, and th’ French opinion o’ th’ exhibition he made ov hissen. 1878. London:

  William Nicholson & Sons. SC. EDD West Riding of Yks.

Sammywell Grimes And His Wife Mally Laikin I' Lakeland.n.d.  London: W. Nicholson &

  Sons. SC. Not in EDD.

Kingkong Project

John HARTLEY (M: 1839 Oct 19 - 1915 Dec 19)

18175            Yorksher Puddin' [s|1876]

            Pensive Poems And Startling Stories [p|1876]

            A Rolling Stone [f|1887]

17472            Yorkshire Ditties (1st series) [1890]

19470            Yorkshire Lyrics [p|1898]

17799            Yorkshire Ditties (2nd series) [1900]

            Yorkshire Tales (1st series) [s|?]

            Yorkshire Tales (2nd series) [s|?]

18176            Yorkshire Tales (3rd series) [s|?]

            Mally An' Me [s|?]

            Seets I' Yorkshire And Lancashire [?]

            Seets I' Paris [f|?]

            Sammywell Grimes And His Wife Mally Laikin I' Lakeland [f|?]

            Grimes' Visit To Th' Queen [f|?]

            Grimes's Trip To America [f|?]

            Frozen To Death [s|?]

            Yorksher Collection Of Most Popular Dialect Stories [s|?]

            A Sheaf From The Moorland [p|?]

For FUTHER INFORMATION about his life and works, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hartley_(poet)

http://www.geni.com/people/John-Hartley/6000000003517070187

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~calderdalecompanion/mmh128.html

Bibliography  on the Author and his works

Dewhirst, Ian. 1993. “The Public Readings of John Hartley, Benjamin Preston and Edwin Waught”. Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society 18: 17-25.

Waddington-Feather, John. 2007. The Best of John Hartley: An Account of his Life and The Clock Almanac. Otley: Waltersgill.

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