Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Humor, Memoirs

Authors: Various In Year : 1862

Book Language: English

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A View of the Lancashire dialect - Part 1
A View of the Lancashire dialect - Part 2
A View of the Lancashire dialect - Part 3
A Glossary of Lancashire words and phrases - A-E
A Glossary of Lancashire words and phrases - F-J
A Glossary of Lancashire words and phrases - K-R
A Glossary of Lancashire words and phrases - S-Z
Memoirs of Mr. John Collier
Life of the Author
Introduction: Dialect of South Lancashire, or Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary
The Cottage of Tim Bobbin, and the Village of Milnrow
On the south Lancashire Dialect - Part 1
On the south Lancashire Dialect - Part 2
John Collier ('Tim Bobbin')
Tim Bobbin as an Artist
The Children of Tim Bobbin
The Dialogue of Thomas and Mary - Part 1
The Dialogue of Thomas and Mary - Part 2
The Dialogue of Thomas and Mary - Footnotes
Tim Bobbin' Grave

A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of 19th century texts on Collier and his work. Egged on by Meary (Mary), Tummus (Thomas) recounts the series of misadventures that ensue when he makes a trip to Rochdale on an errand for his master. First published in 1746, the text grew over subsequent editions as Collier expanded the story, added a preface in which he berates publishers who had pirated his work, and inflated and amended his glossary. The text read here is the final version of the preface, dialogue and glossary, which appeared in an 1862 edition of Collier's works.

Collier's texts are followed by several accounts of Collier's life and commentaries on his work, Elijah Riding's 1860 'plain English' translation of the Tummus and Meary text, and three poems set at Collier's graveside in Rochdale. (Summary by Phil Benson)