THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

Anonymous

. Mr. Councillor Semitery’s Hoff  (1868)

Anonymous

. The Famine Fast Day (1871)

Brierley, Benjamin (1825-1896)

. Gooin’ to Cyprus (1850)

. Ab-o’th-yate at the Isle of Man (1869)

Brooks, Joseph Barlow (1874-1952)

. Th’ Amazin’ Stories o’ th’ Bible (i’ th’ Lankisher Dialect) ( 1937)

. Noah Th’ Boat Buildther (in Lancashire Dialect) (1951).

Buttercup, Sammy (?-?)

. Lancashire Sketches: Poor Widow Smith (1893)

Clegg, John Trafford (1857-1895)

. The Works of John Trafford Clegg [“Th’ Owd Weighver”] Stories, Sketches, and Rhymes in the Rochdale Dialect 1895).

Ferguson, Charlotte (?-?)

. Jim Wilson’s Resolve and What Came of it: A Lancashire Temperance Tale (1865)

Kershaw, Tom (?-?)

. Tummus an’ Meary modernised; being a Rendering into the Lancashire Venacular of the Present Time, of Tim Bobbin’s Famous Production, “The Laughable Adventures of a Lancashire Clown” (187?)

Lahee, Margaret (1831-1895)

. Tim Bobbin’s Adventure with the Irishman (1860)

. Betty o’Yeps Laughable Tale of Jinny Cropper at th’ Halton Forest (1865)

Ormerod, Oliver (1811-1879)

. O Full Tru un Pertikler Okeawnt o bwoth wat Aw seed un wat Aw yerd we gooin to Th’ Greyt Eggsibishun e Lundun (1856)

Robinson, Roper (1836-1908)

. Forness Folk, the’r Sayin’s an’ Dewin’s; or Sketches of Life and Character in Lonsdale North of the Sands (1870)

Scholes, John (1808-1863)

. Sam Sondnokkur's Ryde fro Ratchda to Manchistur: Iz Visit to Manchester Mechaniks Hinstitushun Sho; Wi o Full Okeawnt o wot he Seed un wheer hee Went, wi o iz Adventurs. By Sam iz sel. (1856)

. Tim Gamwattle's Jawnt, e Ab o'-Dick's o th' Doldrum's waggin, wi o whul waggin full o foak, fro Smobridg to Manchester, o seein't Quene, wi just o wap ut th' Eggsibishun; o gradely funny teyle fur o winter foyar soide (1857)

. Abrum o’ Flups Quortin and Weddin; Written by Ab Hissel (1867)

Staton, James Taylor (1816-1875)

. Cures for th’ Toothwertch (186?)

Waugh, Edwin (1817-1890)

. "Ramble from Bury to Rochdale" (1855)

.  Around the Yule-Log (1879)

DIALECT LITERATURE

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1800-1950

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LANCASHIRE