The Weaver Boy; or Miscellaneous Poetry (Manchester 1819)
Hours in the Bowers. Poems (Manchester, 1834)
Homely rhymes, poems and reminiscences (1843, rev. and enlarged edn London and Manchester, 1864)
Harland, John, Ballads and Songs of Lancashire (Part 2, Modern), corrected, revised and enlarged by T.T. Wilkinson (East Ardsley, Wakefield: EP Publishing limited, 1976), facsimile edition based on the third edition of 1882, 220-8, 289-91, 353-5, 411-13, 479-80, 485-8
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Passages in the Life of a Radical (1860), two vols
Account of the Arrest and Imprisonment of Samuel Bamford (1817)
Walks in South Lancashire (1844)
Tawk o'seawth Lankeshur (1850)
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Maidment, Brian (ed), The Poorhouse Fugitives: Self-Taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain (Manchester: Carcanet, 1987), 232-42
Nineteenth-Century Short-title Catalogue (NCSTC)
Reilly, Catherine W., Mid-Victorian poetry, 1860-1879: an annotated biobibliography (London: Mansell, 2000), 27
Sutton, David C. (ed), Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (London: The British Library, 1995), 36
Vicinus, Martha, "Literary Voices of an Industrial Town: Manchester, 1810-70," in The Victorian City: Images and Realities, ed. by H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973), 739-61, 741
Vicinus, Martha, The Industrial Muse: Nineteenth-Century British Working-Class Literature (Croom Helm, 1974), 149
Zlotnick, Susan, Woman, Writing and the Industrial Revolution (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 179-80