Literary dialect 1800-1950 Cumberland Prose

Author: Alfred Ollivant (1874-1927)

Text type: Prose, fiction

Date of composition: 1898

Editions: 1898, 1900, 1902, 1905, 1908, 1924, 1925, 1937, 1947.

Source text:

Ollivant, Hall. 1898. Owd Bob, Son of Kenmuir. London: Heinemann.

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Access and transcription: March 1999

Number of words: 74,741

Dialect represented: Cumberland

Produced by Pilar Sánchez-García

Owd Bob, a Son of Kenmuir (1898)

LITERARY DIALECTS

The Northern Counties

1800-1950

Cumberland Drama

Burroughs, J.

Caine, Hall

Linton, E. Lynn

Ollivant, Alfred

Rea, Alice

Richardson, John

Rigby, Cuthbert

Cumberland Verse

Cumberland Varia