JAMES JENNINGS (1772-1833)

JAMES JENNINGS

(1772-1833)

Somersetshire

DING 2013: “Born in Huntspill, Somerset, he worked at an apothecary’s until 1795, when he moved to London. Six years later he returned to Hunstpill to take care of his father’s grocery business. During these years he published several poems and contributed articles to The Monthly Magazine and to provincial newspapers. By 1817 he was again living in London, as a professional writer. He founded the Metropolitan Literary Institution in 1823 and was editor of the Metropolitan Literary Journal in 1824. His 1834 poem “Doctor Cox” was reprinted in The Dialect of the West of England (1869) with some changes. In it he described a drowning he himself had witnessed as a young boy in 1779”

Works

1814. “On the Somerset Dialect”. The Monthy Magazine or British Register 4.4 no. 261, Nov., 1st: 330-333. SC.

1825. Observations on Some of the Dialects of the West of England, Particularly Somersetshire, with a Glossary of Words in Use There, and with Poems and Other Pieces Exemplifying the Dialect. London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy. SC. EDD.

1834. “Doctor Cox; A Blanscue. Written in Exemplification of the Somersetshire Dialect”. The Graphic and Historical Illustrator. W. Brayley. ed. London: J. Chidley. 172-175. SC.

1869. The Dialect of the West of England, Particularly Somersetshire, with a Glossary of Words in Use There. Also with Poems and Other Pieces Exemplifying the Dialect. 2nd ed., the whole revised, corrected, and enlarged, with two dissertations on the Anglo-Saxon pronouns, and other pieces, by James Knight Jennings. London: John Russell Smith. SC. EDD.

KingKong Project

James JENNINGS, of Huntspill (M: ? - before 1889)

Observations On Some Of The Dialects In The West Of England [n|1825]

7453The Dialect Of The West Of England...Somersetshire

[n|?/1869]

For further information about his life and works, see:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/38/101038402/