THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

LANCASHIRE

DING 2015: "She was born in Carlow, Ireland. She lived for a long time in Rochdale, Lan. She was one of the four dialect writers to be included in the monument to Lancashire dialect writers in Rochdale.”

WORKS

1859. The Sporting Party and Owd Neddy Fitton's Visit to the Earl of D-Y [Derby]; a True Lancashire Sketch [in the Lancashire Dialect]. Rochdale and Manchester [printed]. EDD.

1860. Tim Bobbin's Adventure with the Irishman; or Raising the Dead by the Art of Freemasonry: A Lancashire Tale. 1860.  Manchester: J. Heywood; London: Simpkin, Marshall. SC. EDD.

1861. Owd Yem Un His Five Daughters...A True Lancashire Sketch. Manchester. EDD.

1863 The hunting party; or, Owd Jemmy Wrigley's story abeawt th' fust sir Robert Peel, by the author of 'Owd Neddy Fitton's visit to th'earl o'Derby' &c. London & c.

1865. Betty o’ Yep’s Laughable Tale of Jinny Cropper at th’ Halton Feast. Manchester: Printed by J. Heywood; London: F. Pitman. SC. EDD.

c 1865.  The Carter’s Struggles; Showing hoe Jone o’ Jeffrey’s Wortched to Bring Up his Family Gradely. Manchester. EDD.

1871. Gems of Lancashire, No. 1: Kelup's Kersmas Goose.  Manchester: J. Heywood.

1871. Gems of Lancashire No. 2: Esther Brella’s Divvy, an’ what hoo did wi’ it. Manchester: John Heywood.EDD.

1876. Ordering her Coffin.  Manchester: J. Heywood

1880. Next of Kin. A Humorous Dialogue, Etc. Abel Heywood & Son's Series of Original Dramas, Dialogues & Readings; No. 63. Manchester: J. Heywood.

1880. "The Baum Rabbit: A Tale of Old Rochdale," Ben Brierley's Journal. September 18: 303-4.

1881. Trot Coffie's Boggart: A Lancashire Ghost Story. Manchester: J. Heywood. EDD.

1883. Acquitted Though Guilty; or the Tenant of Wild Bank. A Lancashire Story. Manchester: A. Heywood and Son. EDD.

1886. Tim Bobbin's Centenary. A Ghostly Conversation in Verse. Manchester: J. Heywood.

1892. Sybil West. A Lancashire Story. Oldham: W. E. Clegg .

[n.d.] The Bewitched Teapots.Manchester. EDD.

[n.d.] How Bob Manock geet to th’ Cheermon o’ th’ Henpeck’d Club. We th’ Rules un Regulations. By a Member. Manchester: J. Heywood. EDD.

NOT IN KINGKONG PROJECT

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HER LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Dinsmore, William. 1895. "Lancashire Novelists: Miss Lahee" Papers of the Manchester Literary Club 21. Manchester: John Heywood: 76.

Hakala, Taryn. 2013. "M. R. Lahee and the Lancashire Lads: Gender and Class in Victorian Dialect Writing" Philological Quarterly 92.2: 271-288. [http://www.readperiodicals.com/201304/3386002161.html, accessed 25 April 2015]

Newbigging, Thomas. 1901. Lancashire Humour. London: J. M. Dent & Co.: 20-21

http://www.vads.ac.uk/flarge.php?uid=75534

http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/rochdale.html

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Margaret Rebecca Lahee

(1831-1895)