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NORTHUMBERLAND

DING 2015: "Born at Wark, in Northumberland, he went to school there and started work, when he was 12 years old, as a gardener and, later, as a shepherd, on Lanton Hills, Reedsford and Roddam. When he was 14 he taught the thee rs in various schools in the area. For a short while he also worked as a reaper.  In 1820 he opened his own school at Gargave, Yks. where he was to stay for over twenty years. In 1843 he had to move to London where he remained until his death. EDD records Craven Blossoms (1826) as a primary source for Yorkshire but not any other of his works (for either Yks. or Nthb.) James (1861: lxxxviii) mentions "the difficulties he [Story] had to surmount in writing English, in fact, being compelled to translate his thought form the Northumberland vernacular to English."”

WORKS

1826. "To a Robin Ridbrust". Craven Blossoms, or Poems Chiefly Connected with the District of Craven. Skipton: Printed for the Author, by J. Tasker: 71-72. SC. EDD.

1857. "In my Hey-Day of Youth", "I gang frae Thee"; "Yon Lass Ye See"; "The Day is Gane"; "It Ne'er was Spak'"; "The Bonnie Pink Flower"; "Mony Aul Frien's". The Poetical Works of Robert Story. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts: 45; 80-81; 273-274; 277-278; 283-284; 284-285; 286. SC.

KINGKONG PROJECT

Robert STORY (M: 1795 Oct 17 - 1860 Jul 7)

     Songs And Poems [p|?/?/1849]

     The Poetical Works Of Robert Story [p|1857]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

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

James, John. 1861. "Life of Robert Story". The Lyrical and Other Minor Poems of Robert Story. London: Longman, Gree, Longman, and Roberts: vii-lxxxviii.

Seccombe, Thomas. 2004. "Story, Robert (1795–1860)", rev. S. R. J. Baudry. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26600, accessed 19 April 2015]

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Robert Story

(1795-1860)