THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:
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DURHAM
DING 2013: “ A Methodist minister. His father was an engine-driver. John George Bowran lived at Gateshead until c 1904 when he moved to Hexham. In 1911 he moved again to Stockton-on-Tees. He made up his penname from his first wife’s mother’s maiden name (Ramsay) and his mother’s maiden name (Guthrie). He is buried in Hexham.”
Not in Leclaire (1954)
WORKS
1900. Kitty Fagan: A Romance of Pit Life. 1900. London: Christian Commonwealth Publishing Company. SC. EDD.
KINGKONG PROJECT
Rev, John George BOWRAN {UK} (M: 1869 Jun 25 - 1946 Dec 8)
(&ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE)
On God's Lines (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1899]
Kitty Fagan (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1900]
Idylls Of Rosehill (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1901]
A Son Of The Silence (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1902]
Elsie Macgregor (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1904]
Davie Graham, Pitman (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1904]
Black Dyke (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1904]
Neddy Jacques (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1907]
The Maddisons Of Moorlea (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1908]
A Son Of The Silence (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1908]
The Cranstons (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1909]
The Canny Folks O' Coal-Vale (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [s|1910]
The Doctor's Daughter (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [1912]
With Signals Clear (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1916]
Brotherhood Stories (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [s|1916]
The Old Folks At Home (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1919]
Bessie Binney (ps: Ramsay GUTHRIE) [f|1921]
Life Of Arthur Thomas Guttery, DD [b|1922]
Christianity And Culture [n|1923]
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE
http://www.myprimitivemethodists.org.uk/page_id__943_path__0p3p80p.aspx
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LITERARY DIALECTS
1800-1950
NORTH
DURHAM PROSE
Ramsay Guthrie
(i.e. John George Bowran)
(1869-1946)
(1900)