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    Edwin Waugh (1817–1890) was an English poet. The son of a shoemaker, Waugh was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England and, after some schooling, was apprenticed...
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  • College Ed Waugh, British dramatist (collaborates with Trevor Wood) Edward "Terry" Walter Rail Waugh (1913–1966), South African architect Edwin Waugh (1817–1890)...
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    officer Edwin P. Wilson to work in Libya on a contract to train that country's special forces. This was not an Agency-endorsed assignment and Waugh might...
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    Lancashire dialect website Website dedicated to the poems and songs of Edwin Waugh Edwin Waugh Dialect Society ("the Objects of the Society are the Maintaining...
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    Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (/ˈiːvlɪn ˈsɪndʒən ˈwɔː/; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books;...
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    or mawd, and the broad blue bonnet with its scarlet rim;" (p. 396). Edwin Waugh, a prominent 19th-century Lancastrian poet and writer, was identified...
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    concerning a Lancashire boggart was first published in 1861; the author, Edwin Waugh, had a conversation with an elderly couple one evening about their local...
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    works during his time as Milnrow's schoolmaster. Rochdale-born poet Edwin Waugh was influenced by Collier's work, and wrote an extensive account of Milnrow...
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  • period was that it often took place in Lancashire dialect literature: Edwin Waugh, and many others treated folklore themes, above all, boggarts. While...
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    expansion of factories and housing meant that in 1885, Rochdale-born poet Edwin Waugh, was able to describe Heywood as "almost entirely the creation of the...
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    sculpture, painting and engraving. In 1882, Percy's painting of poet Edwin Waugh was hung at the Manchester Art Gallery. At an exhibit of 51 of his portraits...
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    Died in New Brighton Thomas Frederick Colby, (1784–1852), geographer Edwin Waugh, (1817–1890), poet Laurence Connolly, (1833–1908), entrepreneur and politician...
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    and Clifford Heyworth (Bill o' Bows). Waugh's Well, above Edenfield and Cowpe, marks the spot where Edwin Waugh wrote many of his poems, and is a favourite...
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    Pakistan Tourcoing, Nord, Hauts-de-France, France Lancashire dialect poet Edwin Waugh (1817–1890) was born and brought up in the town. The aristocrat and poet...
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  • England, nf/p) Alec Waugh (1898–1981, England, f) Arthur Waugh (1866–1943, England, nf/p) Auberon Waugh (1931–2001, England, f/nf) Edwin Waugh (1817–1890, England...
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    Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine, by Edwin Waugh Primary source on the hardship from 1862. Report of the International...
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    "Edwin Waugh". Minor Victorian poets and Authors. gerald-massey.org.uk. Archived from the original on 12 April 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2008. waugh, Edwin...
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    pin" is because the doffer's work could lead to deformity of the spine. Edwin Waugh is the author of the dialect poem "The Little Doffer" about a doffer...
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    Frederick Judd Waugh (September 13, 1861 in Bordentown, New Jersey – September 10, 1940) was an American artist, primarily known as a marine artist. During...
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  • McDowell, Edwin (4 September 1981). "Alec Waugh, 83, Author of 'Island in the Sun'". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 June 2019. "Evelyn Waugh, Satirical...
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    included the dialect poets Richard Rome Bealey (1828–87), Ben Brierley and Edwin Waugh. Other dialect poets who were members were James Dawson, Junior. (1840–1906)...
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  • referring to the industrialised parts of England. Soon after, in 1862 Edwin Waugh describing Manchester in the Cotton Famine mentions 'swarms of strange...
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    experiencing the tongue twisting Lancashire dialect and the poetry of Edwin Waugh. 4 "St Helens to Knutsford" 7 January 2016 (2016-01-07) In Merseyside...
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  • poet Alec Waugh (1898–1981), novelist Auberon Waugh (1939–2001), novelist and journalist Edwin Waugh (1817–1890), dialect poet Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)...
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    the Whimsical Adventures and Misfortunes of a Lancashire Clown – 1775 Edwin Waugh Benjamin Brierley Poole, Robert (2004). "Collier, John (1708–1786)"....
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    Edwin Drood is the final novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870. Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood...
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    1886 Cotters of Mossburn, 1886 Spring Blossoms and Autumn Leaves, 1893 Edwin Waugh John Collier (caricaturist)  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates...
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  • Group were also an influence on later poets like Benjamin Brierley, Edwin Waugh, and Fanny Forrester. However, the Group's longer-term "memory" lasted...
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    the first members of the Brasenose Club along with Charles Halle and Edwin Waugh. His colleague Alfred Darbyshire described Duval entering the Brasenose...
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    also wrote in the female perspective and touched on women's rights. Edwin Waugh said of her first novel that it was the best story in the Lancashire...
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