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DING 2018: “Born in St. John's Parish, Newcastle, the son of a weaver. He himself belonged to the Incorporated Company of Weavers. He eventually became a steward and a clerk in it. He was also a private tutor in a school he organized in his own home and parish clerk of St. John's Church. The poem was repeteadly published as a chapbook. The ms. of "The Collier's Wedding", now lost, apparently was used for an 1829 edition by W. C[ail]. In the notes to this edition he says that the poem was originally called "A trip to Elswick" and dated as written in 1729. Mr. C[ail] states that in his edition "some alterations have been made where it could be done with propriety, and a few lines restored from the original manuscript" (C[ail] 1829: iv.)”

WORKS

[1729] 1778. The Collier's Wedding; A Poem. New Castle: T. Saint. SC. EDD.

NOT IN KINGKONG PROJECT

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Allan, Thomas and George Allan. 1891. Allan's Illustrated Editions of Tyneside Songs and Readings. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Thomas & George Allan: 5-7.

C[ail], W. ed. 1829. "Preface." The Collier's Wedding, A Poem by Edward Chicken. A new edition with emendations and corrections. New Castle: Printed for T. and J. Hodgson, Union Street: i-xii.

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Edward Chicken

(1698-1746)