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KENT

DING 2012: "“Born at Ashford, Knt, he worked as a gardener in Faversham until 1830. Then he travelled extensively in Essex, Sussex, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, and, later, to Calcutta, where he remained until 1863. He was a tea-trader, a botanist, and a poet. Dick and Sal was first published before 1821 and underwent over 17 editions and reprints before 1910. It meant the beginning of the tradition of short stories or poems in dialect describing a couple's visit to a place different from their own.”

WORKS

18.. Dick and Sal at Canterbury Fair: A Doggerel Poem. Canterbury: C. Gouldon. SC. EDD.

NOT IN KINGKONG PROJECT

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Fairman, Tony. 1996. "‘Dick and Sal, or, Jack and Joanses fair". Antiquarian Book Monthly 23: 10–15

Fairman,Tony . 2004. "Masters, John White (1791–1873)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/59516, accessed 18 May 2015]

http://www.faversham.org/history/wall_plaques_-_people/john_white_masters.aspx

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John White Masters

(1791-1873)