THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:
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ESSEX
DING 2014: "Born in Colchester, Es., he spent most of his life there (except for a brief sojourn in Derby). He was co-editor of the Essex County Standard, a newspaper owned by his family. He wrote extensively about his hometown. He used the pseudonym Mark Downe for the first edition of his Essex Ballads and Other Poems. It contains several poems written in the Essex dialect. The first edition differs very little from the subsequent editions which were published under his own name.”
WORKS
1895. Essex Ballads and Other Poems. Colchester: Benham & Co. SC. EDD.
1907. Essex Ballads and Other Poems. Colchester & Co. SC.
NOT IN KINGKONG PROJECT
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Benham
http://www.essex-country-life.co.uk/benham.htm
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DIALECT LITERATURE
1800-1950
SOUTH
ESSEX VERSE
Charles Edwin Benham
(Ps. Mark Downe)
(1860-1929)