dialect literature

1800-1950

cheshire prose


 
 
 

Author: James Cresswell Clough (1839-?)


Text type: Prose


Date of composition: 1879


Editions: 1879, 1886


Source text:


Clough, J. C. (1886). “Betty Bresskittle’s Pattens, or Sanshum Fair, A Cheshire-Mon’s Crack.” Rpt. in Robert Holland. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester. London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner and Co.: 458-472.


e-text:


          Access and transcription: May 2012


          Format: MS Word       pdf


          Number of words: 5,184


          Dialect represented: Cheshire    


          Produced by María F. García-Bermejo Giner 


 


“Betty Bresskittle’s Pattens, or Sanshum Fair, A Cheshire-Mon’s Crack.”

(1886)

 


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