Title
Date
First Name
Last Name
Active Decades
1830
1840
1850
1860
Birth Date
Death Date
Gender
Nationality
Industry
Occupation
Birthplace
Place of Publication
London
Biography
Published Poetry Collections
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)
Anthology Appearances
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
Hollingworth, Brian (ed), Songs of the People: Lancashire Dialect Poetry of the Industrial Revolution (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977), 151
Non-Poetical Publications
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)
ODNB
Correspondents
Secondary Sources
Johnson, C.R., Provincial Poetry 1789-1839: British Verse Printed in the Provinces: The Romantic Background (London: Jed Press, 1992), item 46
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
Pickering and Chatto Volumes
Manuscript Information
- British Library, Department of Manuscripts (London)
- Letter, as a sponsor, to the Royal Literary Fund, 1848 (In Loan no.96)
- John Rylands University Library of Manchester
- A glossary of some words and phrases in use amongst the rural population of South Lancashire, 1843-52. With a letter from Edwin Waugh to his father-in-law John Butterworth (MS.969)
- Letter, tipped into a printed book, 1841. (In R129643)
- Letter to Elizabeth Gaskell, 1849 (English MS.730/4)
- Manchester Central Library
- 7 letters, all or some of them to John Harland, 1840-66. With an autograph poem, “Farewell to my cottage,” 2 pages, 1857 (In Harland I & II)
- National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh)
- Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 1849 (MS.1796, f.72)
- Trinity College (Cambridge) Library
- Letters, 1 to Lord Houghton, the others to Francis Place, 1841-59. With press cuttings and a printed leaflet (Houghton 215-21)
- University of Edinburgh Library
- Letter, 1851 (La.II.649/17)
- University of Liverpool Library
- Letter, 1849 (Rathbone Papers XXI.14.18(1)
- University of Reading Library
- Letter to the “Manchester Examiner,” 18-- (Longman Archive II, 71/1/108)