THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE

DING 2015: "Born at Halifax, he attended school there and was apprenticed as a textile designer in 1851. In 1866 he became editor of the Illuminated Original Clock Almanack. He migrated twice to the United States and Canada but returned to England. He was a prolific writer of tales and poems in the Yorkshire dialect."

WORKS

1873?. Yorkshire Ditties; by John Hartley; to which is added the cream of with and humour from his popular writings. First Series. Wakefield: W. Nicholson. EDD West Riding of Yks.

1873. Yorkshire Ditties; by John Hartley; to which is added the cream of with and humour from his popular writings. Second Series. Wakefield: W. Nicholson. SC. EDD West Riding of Yks.

1876. Seets I’ Lundun. A Yorkshireman’s ten days’ trip. 1876. London: W. Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

1876. Yorksher Puddin’. A collection of the most popular dialect stories from the pen of John Hartley. Wakefield: W. Nicholson. EDD West Riding of Yks.

1878. Seets I' Paris. Sammywell Grimes’s trip with his old chum Billy Baccus: His opinion o’ th’ French, and th’ French opinion o’ th’ exhibition he made ov hissen. London: William Nicholson & Sons. SC. EDD West Riding of Yks.

1879. Grimes's Trip To America. London: W. Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

1886?. Yorkshire Tales. Amusing Sketches of Yorkshire Life. In the Yorkshire Dialect.First Series. London: W. Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

1890?. Yorkshire Tales. Amusing Sketches of Yorkshire Life. In the Yorkshire Dialect. Second Series. London: W. Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

n.d. Yorkshire Tales. Amusing Sketches of Yorkshire Life. In the Yorkshire Dialect. Third Series. London: W. Nicholson & Sons.  Not in EDD.

1892. Grimes' Visit To Th' Queen. London: W. Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

1898. Yorkshire Lyrics. Poems Written in the dialect as spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire: To which are added a selection of fugitive verses not in the dialect. London: W. Nicholson & Son. Not in EDD.

1902. Mally An' Me. London: W. Nicholson & Sons. Not in EDD.

1916?. Seets I' Yorkshire And Lancashire or Grimes Comical Trip from Leeds to Liverpool by Canal. London: William Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

n.d. Seets I’ Blackpool Fleetwood, Lytham, and Southport as seen by Sammywell Grimes an’ his wife Mally on ther Hallyday trip, wi’ a few incidents an’ accidents ‘at occurred. n.d. London: William Nicholson & Sons. EDD West Riding of Yks.

n.d. Sammywell Grimes And His Wife Mally Laikin I' Lakeland. London: W. Nicholson &  Sons. SC. Not in EDD.

KINGKONG PROJECT

John HARTLEY (M: 1839 Oct 19 - 1915 Dec 19)

18175       Yorksher Puddin' [s|1876]

               Pensive Poems And Startling Stories [p|1876]

               A Rolling Stone [f|1887]

17472       Yorkshire Ditties (1st series) [1890]

19470       Yorkshire Lyrics [p|1898]

17799       Yorkshire Ditties (2nd series) [1900]

               Yorkshire Tales (1st series) [s|?]

               Yorkshire Tales (2nd series) [s|?]

18176       Yorkshire Tales (3rd series) [s|?]

               Mally An' Me [s|?]

               Seets I' Yorkshire And Lancashire [?]

               Seets I' Paris [f|?]

               Sammywell Grimes And His Wife Mally Laikin I' Lakeland [f|?]

               Grimes' Visit To Th' Queen [f|?]

               Grimes's Trip To America [f|?]

               Frozen To Death [s|?]

               Yorksher Collection Of Most Popular Dialect Stories [s|?]

               A Sheaf From The Moorland [p|?]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Dewhirst, Ian. 1993. “The Public Readings of John Hartley, Benjamin Preston and Edwin Waught”. Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society 18: 17-25.

Dimbleby, R. 2014. Discoving John Hartley's Clock Almanacks, 1867-1916.Wakefield: Charlesworth Press.

Hargreaves, John A. 2004. "Hartley, John (1839–1915)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  Oxford: University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/67922, accessed 21 May 2015]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hartley_%28poet%29

Waddington-Feather, John. 2007. The Best of John Hartley: An Account of his Life and The Clock Almanac. Otley: Waltersgill.

Walker, Andrew. 2006. "'My Native Twang': Identities and the West Riding Nineteenth-Century Dialect Literature of John Hartley and 'The Shevvild Chap," Historical Perspectives on Social Identities. Alyson Brown. ed. Newcastle:  Cambridge Scholars Press: 23-45.

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John Hartley

(1839-1915)