THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

WILTSHIRE

DING 2012: "A carriage builder born in Wilton, Wilshire, and twice mayor of his town, he started writing dialect poetry in 1867, followed by dialect tales and short stories, and a glossary of Wiltshire words.”

WORKS

1867. Poems in the Wiltshire Dialect. Salisbury: Frederick Blake.

1870. Voices from Salisbury Plain, or, Who’s to Blame: A Dialogue on the Franco-Prusian War     betwee Willum and Jeames (Wiltshire Labourers). London: Simpkin, Marshall.

1871. The Adventures of Farmer John Bray at the Wilton Festivities in Honour of the Coming of Age of the Earl of Pembroke. Salisbury: Frederick Blake

1873. Rhymes of the Wiltshire Peasantry and Other Trifles. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards. EDD.

1881. Wiltshire Rhymes; A Series of Poems in the Wiltshire Dialect. London: Simpkin, Marshall. EDD.

1889. The Fourth Series of Wiltshire Rhymes... containing 25 new poems in the Wiltshire dialect never before published. Salisbury: Francis A. Blake; Wilton: E. Slow. EDD.

1894. The Fifth Series of Wiltshire Rhymes and Tales in the Wiltshire Dialect. Wilton: E. Slow; Salisbury: R. R. Edwards; Gillingham: J. Ridout. SC. EDD.

1892. Glossary of Wiltshire Dialect Words, Spoken in the neighbourhood of Salisbury. 1892. Wilton: Wilton Printing Works. EDD.

1899. Humorous West Country Tales. By the Author of Wiltshire Rhymes. 1899. Salisbury: R.R. Edwards.

1903. Wiltshire Rhymes: For the West Countrie. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

1903. The Wiltshire Moonraker’s Edition of West Country Rhymes. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent. SC. [It has a long glossary of Wiltshire dialect at the end.]

1903. Buffalo Bill’s Wild Waste Show at Zalsbury August tha zix, nineteen underd an dree. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

1907. Tha military manoovers in tha nayberhood a Zalsbury September, 1907. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

1908. The Old Age Pension Act: A Dialogue between Fred, a Woold Varm Leabourer and the Squire’s Baillie. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

n.d. Ben and Nancy Sloper’s Visit to Zalsbury Vair, what thay zeed and how thay enjoyed therselves... Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

1913. A Humorous Tale in the West Countrie and Cockney Dialects, Entitled Jan Ridley’s New Wife. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

n.d. The Great War: A West Countrie Dialogue: Between Fred, soldier and Mark, pacifist. Salisbury: R. R. Edwards.

NOT IN KINGKONG PROJECT

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Chandler, John. ed. 1982. Figgetty Pooden, the dialect verse of Edward Slow. Trowbridge: Wiltshire Library and Museum Service.

Edward Slow-Bin and Bit Apast it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6-bI-L3uNk&feature=relmfu

http://edwardslow.wordpress.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Slow

The Two Preachers by Edward Slow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZHq5Bs8By8

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Edward Slow

(1841-1925)