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Labour Class Poets
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An account of the resource
Labour Class Poets
Person
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Last Name
Williams
First Name
Edward
Birth Date
1746 (ODNB: 1747)
Death Date
1826
Nationality
Welsh
Occupation
stonemason, poet and antiquarian
OED DNB
Yes
Bibliography
Radcliffe.
Biographical Text
Key figure in Welsh history; now the subject of a multi-volume publishing project from the University of Wales Press and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, including a three-volume edition of his Letters, three monographs and a collection of essays
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Williams Edward
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‘Iolo Morganwg’
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LC 3
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Born Glamorgan
Male
-
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Labour Class Poets
Description
An account of the resource
Labour Class Poets
Person
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Last Name
Webb
First Name
John
Occupation
weaver
Publications
Mildenhall (1771), Poems (1772), Haverhill, a Descriptive Poem and Other Poems (London: printed for the author and sold by J. Nunn, 1810), xxiv, 119 [see additional note]
Subscribers
Yes, local residents
Bibliography
NCSTC, NLS, BL, Bod, Cranbrook, 243
Biographical Text
includes subscription list with numerous local residents, ‘poems by a journeyman weaver, born in the vale of obscurity...The poem is in the form of a narrative saga, with numerous direct or oblique References to local people, places, and events. As poetry it probably has little merit: as an illustration of working-class emancipation it may have rather more’ (John Drury Rare Books catalogue 104, 2000-2001, item 149)
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Webb John
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‘Kenrick Prescott’
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Haverhill, Suffolk
Male
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Title
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Labour Class Poets
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Labour Class Poets
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Last Name
Foster
First Name
William C.
Birth Date
fl. 1798-1805
Occupation
a ‘self-described workingman of little formal education, but a passionate autodidact’ (Basker 588)
Publications
Poetry on Different Subjects, Written under the Signature of Timothy Spectacles (Salem, NY, 1805)
Bibliography
Basker, 588-9
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Foster William C.
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‘Timothy Spectacles’
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New York State
Male
-
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Labour Class Poets
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Labour Class Poets
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Last Name
Soutar
First Name
Elizabeth
Birth Date
1768
Nationality
Scottish
Occupation
hymn-writer
Publications
1835 published in Dundee a fifty-page book of poems and a memoir
Bibliography
Reid, 437-8; inf. Florence Boos
Biographical Text
Voluntarily rejected dole and maintained herself from sale of rhymes. Wrote simple hymns. Daughter of a shoemaker, received some education. She lived in Dundee from age 13.
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Soutar Elizabeth
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"Blind Poetess"
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Dundee (born Coupar Angus)
Female
-
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Title
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Labour Class Poets
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Labour Class Poets
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Last Name
Purvis
First Name
William
Birth Date
1752
Death Date
1832
Occupation
street musician and singer, composed rhymes and tunes, a ‘traditional working class songwriter’
Bibliography
Allan, 54-8, 188; Vicinus (1974), 144, 164; William Hone, The Table Book (London: William Tegg, 1878), 231-2
Biographical Text
blind son of a waterman
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Purvis William
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"Blind Willie"
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?
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Male
-
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Title
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Labour Class Poets
Description
An account of the resource
Labour Class Poets
Person
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Last Name
MacCodrum
First Name
John
Birth Date
?1693
Death Date
1779
Nationality
Scottish
Occupation
Gaelic bard, son of a peasant (father a crofter)
OED DNB
Yes
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MacCodrum John
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"Iain"
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?
Male
-
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Title
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Labour Class Poets
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An account of the resource
Labour Class Poets
Person
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Last Name
Freeth
First Name
John
Birth Date
1731
Death Date
1808
Occupation
alehouse keeper of Birmingham, topical songwriter and singer
Publications
poems published in The Warwickshire Medley (Birmingham, 1780); Modern Songs on Various Subjects (Birmingham, 1782); New London Magazine, III (1786), Supplement, The Political Songster, or, a touch of the times, on various subjects, and adapted to commmon tunes (6th edn. with additions, Birmingham, 1790)
OED DNB
Yes
Bibliography
Rizzo, 243; Lonsdale (1984), 656-60, 852n; Poole, 156-60; Hobday; Johnson, item 346; Johnson 46, no. 290; ESTC; BL 11622.b.1, BL 11622.b.44, BL 11632.de.59
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Freeth John
Creator
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"John Free"
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LC 3, 1-6
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Birmingham
Male
-
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Labour Class Poets
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An account of the resource
Labour Class Poets
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Last Name
Skirving
First Name
Adam
Birth Date
1719
Death Date
1803
Nationality
Scottish
Occupation
Haddingtonshire farmer
OED DNB
Yes
Bibliography
Shanks, 115; Edwards, 12, 276
Biographical Text
Older contemporary of Burns
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Skirving Adam
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"Johnnie Cope"
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Garleton
Male
-
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Labour Class Poets
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An account of the resource
Labour Class Poets
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Last Name
Mackay
First Name
Robert
Birth Date
1714
Death Date
1778
Nationality
Scottish
Occupation
Gaelic bard, unlettered drover, oral poet and folklorist
OED DNB
Yes
Bibliography
Wilson, I, 180-3; Ian Grimble, The World of Robb Donn (1979)
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Mackay Robert
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"Robb Donn"
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Strathmore
Male
-
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Title
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Labour Class Poets
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An account of the resource
Labour Class Poets
Person
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Last Name
Llwyd
First Name
Richard
Birth Date
1752
Death Date
1835
Nationality
Welsh
Occupation
‘began life as a domestic servant but applied himself with great diligence to education and self-improvement’ (Johnson)
Publications
Beaumaris Bay (Chester, [1800]); Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod (Chester, 1804); Poems. Tales, Odes, Sonnets, Translations from the British (Chester, 1804); The Poetical works of Richard Llwyd, the Bard of Snowdon (London, [1837])
Bibliography
Radcliffe; Johnson, items 546-9; C. R. Johnson, catalogue no. 46, nos. 307-8.
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Llwyd Richard
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"The Bard of Snowdon"
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Beaumaris
Male