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DING 2015: “Born at Sevenoaks, he was apprenticed to a bookseller in London and proceeded to open his own bookshop ca. 1833. He had a keen interest on English dialects. He gathered a bibliography on the topic, A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published towards Illustrating the Provincial Dialects of England (1839) and wrote Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, Poems, Songs and Ballads by Various Writers that same year. He published many other works on English dialects and by dialect writers.”

Works

1839. A Bibliographical List of the Works that Have Been Published towards Illustrating the Provincial Dialects of England. London: John Russell Smith SC. EDD.

1839. Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, Poems, Songs and Ballads by Various Writers...Now First Collected with a Copious Glossary of Words Peculiar to those counties. London: John Russell Smith SC. EDD.

Kingkong Project

John Russell SMITH (M: 1810 - 1894 Oct 19)

For further information about his life and works, see:

Anonymous. 10th Nov.1894. The Athenaeum: 644

R. J. Goulden, ‘Smith, John Russell (1810–1894)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25864, accessed 8 March 2015]

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