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
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)
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]
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.
Occupation
hymn-writer
Nationality
Scottish
Publications
1835 published in Dundee a fifty-page book of poems and a memoir
alehouse keeper of Birmingham, topical songwriter and singer
Death Date
1808
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)
Radcliffe; Johnson, items 546-9; C. R. Johnson, catalogue no. 46, nos. 307-8.
Occupation
‘began life as a domestic servant but applied himself with great diligence to education and self-improvement’ (Johnson)
Death Date
1835
Nationality
Welsh
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])