dialect literature

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Cumberland Prose


 
 
 

Author: Isaac Ritson (1761-1789)


Text type: Prose


Date of composition: c.1850


Editions: 18th c., c.1850


Source text:


Ritson, Isaac. c.1850. A Copy of a Letter, written by a Young Shepherd to his Friend in Borrowdale with a Glossary of the Cumberland Words. Whitehaven: Callander and Dixon.


e-text:

                    Access and transcription: December 2009


                    Format: MS Word    pdf


                    Number of words: 2,344


                    Dialect represented: Cumberland      

   

                    Produced by Carlos Molina


                    Revised by Pilar Sánchez-García

 


A Copy of a Letter, written by a Young Shepherd to his Friend in Borrowdale with a Glossary of the Cumberland Words (c.1850)

 


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