dialect literature

1800-1950

Cumberland verse


 
 
 

Author: Alexander Craig Gibson (1813-1874)


Text type: Prose


Date of composition: 1869


Editions: 1869, 1873, 1880, 1891, 2007


Source text:


Craig Gibson, Alexander. 1869. The Folk Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent: Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties. London: John Russell Smith.


e-text:


          Access and transcription: July 2011


          Format: MS Word    pdf


          Number of words: 41,390


          Dialect represented: Cumberland &

                                           Westmoreland   


          Produced by Pilar Sánchez-García

 

The Folk-Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent

(1869)

 


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