Wiltshire

DING 2012:  “A carriage builder born in Wilton, Wilshire, and twice mayor of his town, he started writing dialect poetry in 1867, followed by dialect tales and short stories and a glossary of Wiltshire words.”

Works

Poems in the Wiltshire Dialect. 1867. Salisbury: Frederick Blake.

Voices from Salisbury Plain, or, Who’s to Blame: A Dialogue on the Franco-Prusian War     betwee Willum and Jeames (Wiltshire Labourers). 1870: London: Simpkin, Marshall.

The Adventures of Farmer John Bray at the Wilton Festivities in Honour of the Coming of Age of the Earl of Pembroke. 1871. Salisbury: Frederick Blake

Rhymes of the Wiltshire Peasantry and Other Trifles. 1873. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards. EDD.

Wiltshire Rhymes; A Series of Poems in the Wiltshire Dialect. 1881. London: Simpkin, Marshall. EDD.

The Fourth Series of Wiltshire Rhymes... containing 25 new poems in the Wiltshire dialect never before published. 1889. Salisbury: Francis A. Blake; Wilton: E. Slow. EDD.

The Fifth Series of Wiltshire Rhymes and Tales in the Wiltshire Dialect .1894. Wilton: E. Slow; Salisbury: R. R. Edwards; Gillingham: J. Ridout. EDD.

Glossary of Wiltshire Dialect Words, Spoken in the neighbourhood of Salisbury. 1892. Wilton: Wilton Printing Works. EDD.

Humorous West Country Tales. By the Author of Wiltshire Rhymes. 1899. Salisbury: R.R. Edwards.

Wiltshire Rhymes: For the West Countrie. 1903. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

The Wiltshire Moonraker’s Edition of West Country Rhymes. 1903. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent.

Buffalo Bill’s Wild Waste Show at Zalsbury August tha zix, nineteen underd an dree. 1903. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

Tha military manoovers in tha nayberhood a Zalsbury September, 1907. 1907. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

The Old Age Pension Act: A Dialogue between Fred, a Woold Varm Leabourer and the Squire’s Baillie. 1908. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

Ben and Nancy Sloper’s Visit to Zalsbury Vair, what thay zeed and how thay enjoyed therselves...n.d. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

A Humorous Tale in the West Countrie and Cockney Dialects, Entitled Jan Ridley’s New Wife. 1913. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

The Great War: A West Countrie Dialogue: Between Fred, soldier and Mark, pacifist. n.d. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

Not in KingKong Project

For further information about his life and works, see:

Chandler, John. ed. 1982. Figgetty Pooden, the dialect verse of Edward Slow. Trowbridge: Wiltshire Library and Museum Service.

Edward Slow-Bin and Bit Apast it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6-bI-L3uNk&feature=relmfu

http://edwardslow.wordpress.com/

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

The Two Preachers by Edward Slow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZHq5Bs8By8

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