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John Askham of Wellingborough: The Work of a Local Working-Class Author in the Nineteenth Century
Davies, Patrick J M
1983
A study of the writings of John Askham, shoemaker and author from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. Askham's prose is discussed in relation to street literature of the beginning of the nineteenth ...
Handlist of Dialect Publications at Keele University Library
University of Keele. Library
1976
This file contains a typed handlist of 19th-century Lancashire dialect publications (prose and verse) held at Keele University Library. This includes an accompanying typed letter from the Archivist at...
Development of English
[1960-1979]
This file contains papers relating to the teaching of the development of the English language, including several papers on aspects of Old English grammar; lines from the Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's...
Ibibio Folktale Night: An Introduction to Ibibio Oral Literature
Ikiddeh, Ime
1966
M.A. thesis presenting a general survey of the oral form of Ibibio folktales ( Nigeria), and a study of sample prose and verse tales known by the collector and seen in the context of a single night's ...
North American Universities File 5
1971-1972
“Tennessee Papers 1972”. Correspondence between Harold Orton and the University of Tennessee regarding his appointment as Visiting Professor from January-June 1972; photocopies of book lists for O...
Papers on Allendale Town Dialect
Dixon, Hubert
[1929-1969]
This file contains a typed series of articles, originally written for the 'Hexham Courant' (ca. 1929-1939), on the dialect of Allendale Town, Northumberland. The author, Hubert Dixon, was a native of ...
Aspects of Non-Standard Relativization: A Study of Relative Clauses in the Dorset Dialect, in the Vein of Traditional Dialectology, with Some Socio-Linguistic Refinements
Eynden, Nadine Van den
[1992]
A doctoral thesis which examines the mechanisms underlying dialectal relative patterning, and uses the dialect of Dorset by way of illustration. The corpus of material upon which the study is based co...
Written Dialect Tradition in the West Riding of Yorkshire
Harris, Wendy
1973
An examination of song, recitation in verse and prose, and other items created for either public or private performance, appearing in dialect form and gathered from written or printed sources covering...