Dialect in British Fiction: 1800-1836Funded by The Arts and Humanities Research CouncilSupported by The University of Sheffield
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Hutchinson, Miss A.A. (1812)
Didactic / Moralising; Domestic; Epistolary; Manners / Society; not clear (epistolary novel);
Dialect Speakers
1. Authorial voice (preface) - Individual
2. Mrs Fitzamor - Socialite
3. Sarah Thorn (later Trueman) - Unspecified
4. Thomas - Servant
5. Petronella Grenby - Gentry
6. Old dame - Servant
7. Maid - Individual
22
Mudie, Robert (1820)
Didactic / Moralising; Domestic; Humour; Manners / Society; Social Commentary; Lowlands, Scotland;
Dialect Speakers
1. Rachel - Aunt, local resident
2. John Dudley - Farm Labourer on Saville farm
3. Wife of an injured cottager - Wife of a cottager, humble but proud
4. Tibbie - Daughter of poor farmers who try to emigrate
5. Lodowick (Lody) - Church beadle (so churchman / respectable poor)
6. Charlie Brown - Tinker
7. Duncan - Old man in Tartan, ill in cottage
8. Shepherdesses - Shepherdesses
23
Peacock, Thomas Love (1816)
Political; Satirical; Wales; Snowdonia; Country house and estate;
Dialect Speakers
1. Butler - The fat little butler
2. Mac Laurel - Poet and literary reviewer
3. Sexton - Sexton
24
Beauclerc, Amelia (1816)
Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; New Forest; cottage; village;
Dialect Speakers
1. John Barnes - Cottager
2. Margery Barnes - Cottager - later domestic staff
3. Mrs Bilson - Domestic
4. Old man - Domestic
5. Bryant - Servant
25
Unknown Author (1812)
Anecdotal; Courtship; London; Madeira;
Dialect Speakers
1. Lady Dorimon - Gentry
2. Mr Clarkson - Not clear from text (transitory visitor)
3. Mr Scrimp - Merchant
4. Narrator (third person) - Individual
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Malden, Miriam (1804)
Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Gothic; Devon, country house; London;
Dialect Speakers
1. Narrator (third person) - Individual
2. Rough men - Bailiffs
3. Mrs Figgins - Greengrocer's wife
4. Betty Bumpkin - Servant
5. Post chaise driver - Driver
27
M'Chronicle (pseudonym), Ronald (1828)
Anecdotal; Ballads / Poems; Courtship; Domestic; Manners / Society; Scotland; London; Continent;
Dialect Speakers
1. Shusey Dobbin - Maid
2. Joseph Corderoy - Draper
3. Gobbins - Linen-draper
4. Christy Chrichton - Cook
5. Mungo - Drugist
6. Mrs Paterson - Landlady
7. Teague O'Larney - Has been with the Admiral since a boy
8. Tom - A Yorkshire lad and Lucy's sweetheart
9. Zora - Originally appears to be black servant, then revealed to be Spanish lady
10. Duncan McFarlane - Waiter from Banff
28
Monkland, Anne Catherine (1828)
Adventure; Anecdotal; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Domestic; Manners / Society; Military; Seafaring; Sentimental; Social Commentary; Travel; India; on board ship;
Dialect Speakers
1. Doctor Pillet - Medical doctor
2. Ayahs - Ayah
3. Cosinth Bose - Sircar - clerk or accountant
4. Doctor McAlpin - Medical doctor
29
?Deale or Luttrell (Henry) (1828)
Anecdotal; Courtship; Satirical; Sentimental; London; Wales;
Dialect Speakers
1. Patrick Friske - Gentleman
2. Twaddle Gascon - Purports to be a Colonel, Gentleman
3. William Crockford - Gambling den owner
4. Bill Twack'em - Prize-fighter
5. Percival - Gentleman
6. Ike Smith - Pub drinker
30
Cunningham, Allan (1836)
Bildungsroman; Biography; Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Domestic; Inheritance / Identity; Supernatural; Glengarock, Scotland;
Dialect Speakers
1. Nickie Neevie - Peasant woman
2. Jeanie Rabson - Sister to the laird
3. Mary Morison - Peasant woman
4. Nanse Halberson - Peasant and witch
5. Morison Roldan - Peasant, later turned Lord
6. John Milligan - Preacher
7. Davie Gellock - Peasant
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