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Author: James Taylor Staton (1816-1875)


Text type: Drama


Date of composition: 1867


Editions: 1867


Source text:


Staton, James Taylor. 1867. The Wife Hunters. A Comic Sketch; Designed for Representation at Social and Family Gatherings. Published in The Brisbane Courier, Saturday, August 31, 1867. 3.


e-text:


            Access and transcription: July 2011

           

            Format: MS Word    pdf

           

            Number of words: 4,625

          

            Dialect represented: Lancashire, Irish

          

            Produced by Javier Ruano-García

 


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The Wife Hunters.  A Comic Sketch (1867)

 

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