Gloucestershire

ding (2011): “We have been unable to find any information whatsoever about this author. He was probably an informant of Mr. J. Drummond Robertson’s.  Mr. J. Drummond Robertson mentioned on introducing the poem: ‘I am indebted to Mr. Edward Barry in the Forest of Dean, for the following lines, written by him some years ago, ‘on the night when all the gas-lights went out suddenly in Micheldean’.’ (Robertson, J. Drummond: 1890: 205).”

Works

Barry, Mr Edward. 1890. Lines by a “Vorester”. Printed in A Glossary of Dialect and Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester. Collected and Compiled by J. Drummond Robertson, M.A. Edited by Lord Moreton. London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. 205.

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