Lancashire Dialect

Not in Leclaire (1954)

Works 

Aynuck o Ned's un his pratty dowter Sally: ambishun un its reward; a legend suitable for ony toime, un belungin to th' same category us th' cock-lone ghost. Also Jackey Jackson's last will, un Th' rules o th' Henpeckt Club, &c. O be th' editur of Bobby Shuttle. [n.d.]. Manchester.

The Bachelor's Wants: A Comic Bagatelle ... Fifth Edition. Manchester: John Heywood, 1870.

Bobby Shuttle un his woife Sarah's visit to Manchester un to th' Greight Hert Treasures Eggshibishun at Owd Traffort. 1857. Manchester: John Heywood. SC. EDD Lan.

Bobby Shuttle un his woife Sayroh's visit to th' Mechanics' Institushun Eggsibishun at Bowtun. 1857. Manchester: Heywood. EDD Lan.

Bobby Shuttle un his woife Sayroh at th' Grand Review in Yetton Park. 1872. Manchester. EDD Lan.

Bobby Shuttle un his woife Sarah wi th’ prince un princess o Wales at Bowtun. 1873. Manchester: John Heywood. SC. EDD Lan.

Bobby Shuttle Un His Woife Sayroh at Th' Darrun Eggsibishun: Descroibin Wot They Seed, Etc. 1868. Manchester: John Heywood.

Bump! Bump!! Bump!!! A Lancashire Ghost Story, Etc. 1896. Manchester.

Cures for th’ Toothwerch. [n.d.] Manchester: Abel Heywood. SC.

Going for the Census. 1867. Published in The Brisbane Courier, Saturday, August 24. 3. SC.

Helps to Amusement: a series of original recitations, dialogues, and sketches. 1888. Manchester. EDD Lan.

Hen Dick's weddin and other sketches. 18?. Manchester: Abel Heywood.

How Bob Manock geet to be th’ cheermon o’th Henpecked Club, : wi th’ rules un regelasions. 1875. Manchester: John Heywood.

Jimmy Troddles' Social Fender. A round of fireside stories, suited to any season, told by old-fashioned people. 1873. Manchester. EDD Lan.

Kestor Un Betty: Or the Adventurs Un Mischoances Uv a Yewood Felly. 1865. Manchester: John Heywood. EDD.

Mally Bobshaw's gruel; also, Tummy Teawcrop on dreoms. 18?. Manchester.

My gronny’s lanterun. 18?. Manchester: Abel Heywood.

Pay your own debts: a new temperance drama, in two parts. 1885. Manchester. EDD Lan.

Plain cookery for a workin mon; also, Getting up a programme. 18?. Manchester: Abel Heywood.

Rays Fro Th' Loominary; a Selection of Comic Lancashire Tales, Adapted for Public Reading or Reciting. 1866. Manchester: John Heywood. SC. EDD Lan.

Th' Visit to Th' Greight Parris Eggsibishun of Bobby Shuttle Un His Woife Sayroh. 1867. Manchester: John Heywood.

The Song of Solomon in the Lancashire Dialect, as Spoken at Bolton. 1859. Manchester. SC. EDD Lan.

Owd Wisdom's Lankishire Awmenack, For ... 1860 ... 1860. Bolton.

The Bowtun Loominary an Turn Fowt Telegraph. 13 vols. 1852-61. Bolton. EDD.

The Husbands' Tea Party. 1875. Manchester: John Heywood. EDD.

The Lankishire Loominary un Wickly Looking-Glass. 2 vols. 1863-65. Manchester. EDD Lan.

Th' milisho pappers uv Obadiah Hezekiah Jeremiah Joddrill, a full private in Hur Majesty's Thard Lankishire Milisho, commonly cawd French Freetuners: beein a batch o letters to his cuzzen Joe at Fernuth. 18?. Manchester: A. Heywood.

The Old Family Clock, and the Black-eared Pig: A case at Nisi Prius! O'Brallaghan versus MacDawdle. 1864. Manchester. EDD Lan.

The politics uv owd Zebulun Fiddeemus. 18?. Manchester: Abel Heywood.

The Three Graces: a new comic sketch, for representation at social and family gatherings. 1860. Manchester. EDD Lan.

The Wife Hunters. 1867. Published in The Brisbane Courier, Saturday, August 31. 3. SC.

The Wrangles; or Matrimony from two opposite points of view. A comic sketch. 1888. Manchester. EDD Lan.

Wriggles the Wiseacre: A comic dramatic sketch. [n.d.] Manchester. EDD

not Kingkong Project

For further information about his  life and works, see:

Suderland, John. 1989. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford: University Press: 451

Thomas, Treford. 1999. “Lancashire and the Cotton-mill in Late Victorian Fiction”. Manchester Region History Review 13: 44-51.

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