THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:
DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS
LANCASHIRE
DING 2018: “Born at White Ash, Lan.. His father, John Westall, owned a cotton mill which inspired the one in The Old Factory. When he died, William became a journalist and novelist. He spent many years in Switzerland as a correspondent for The Times and for The Daily News. He also travelled widely in North and South America. He began writing when he was in his forties. Several of his novels contain Lancashire dialect, but Joseph Wright only used two, The Old Factory (1881) and Birch Dene (1889) as primary sources for EDD.
Our thanks to Mr. Richard Hooper, Stanhill Village Heritage Project, for providing us with a copy of the 1904 anonymous obituary which contains the photo included in the Dialect Writers Gallery.”
Leclaire (1954: 147): “Born at White Ash, near Blackburn, Lancashire, the eldest son of a cotton spinner. Educated at Liverpool High School. Retired from business about 1870. Only one of his novels is of interest in the regional connection.”
WORKS
1881. The Old Factory: A Lancashire story. London: Cassell and Cy. SC. EDD.
1883. Ralph Norbreck's Trust. Vol 1. London: Tinsley and Brothers. SC.
1885. Ralph Norbreck's Trust. London: Cassell & Cy. SC.
1889. Birch Dene. New York: Harper Brothers. SC. EDD.
KINGKONG PROJECT
William (Bury) WESTALL (M: 1834 Feb 7 - 1903 Sep 9)
Larry Lohengrin [f|1881]
The Old Factory [f|1881]
Red Ryvington [f|1885]
Ralph Norbreck's Trust [f|1883]
Two Pinches Of Snuff [f|1886]
The Phantom City [f|1886]
Her Two Millions [f|1887]
A Queer Race [f|1887]
A Fair Crusader [f|1888]
14779 Nigel Fortescue; or,..An Andean Romance (US: Mr Fortescue) [f|1888]
Birch Dene [f|1889]
Strange Crimes [f|1890]
Trust Money [f|1892]
The Witch's Curse [f|1893]
As A Man Sows [f|1894]
Sons Of Belial [f|1895]
With The Red Eagle [f|1897]
Her Two Millions [f|1897]
The Sacred Crescents [f|1902]
Dr Wynne's Revenge [f|1903]
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE
Anonymous. 1904. "William Westall. Obituary." Whitefriar's Journal: 76-77.
Hooper, E. S. 2004. “Westall, William Bury (1834–1903)”. rev. Roger T. Stearn. Oxford: Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: University Press. [Accessed 14 May 2015]
Parravano, Ellen Buckrey. 1973. “William Bury Westall 1834-1903: A Bio-bibliography”. M.A. Dissertation. University of Minnessota.
Copyright © 2018- DING, María F. García-Bermejo Giner, The Salamanca Corpus, Universidad de Salamanca
LITERARY DIALECTS
1800-1950
NORTH
LANCASHIRE PROSE
William Bury Westall
(1834-1903)
(1881)
(1881)
(1889)