41
Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone (1824)
Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Domestic; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Mystery; Social Commentary; Scotland; London; country house;
Dialect Speakers
1.
Cottage urchins - Urchins
2.
Female cottager - Cottager
3.
Uncle Ramsay - Retired from work in India - presumably merchant
4.
Augustus Larkins; Barbara Larkins; Miss Larkins - Tradesman and family
5.
Jacob Ruxton Lewiston of Perth-Amboy, New Jersey - Some kind of trader
42
Foster, Mrs E. M. (1800)
Humour; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Political; Cornwall;
Dialect Speakers
1.
Joanna - Servant
2.
Mrs Wilson - Farmer's wife
3.
Mr Jones; Miss Davis; others - Stagecoach passengers
43
Frances Milton, Trollope (1832)
Adventure; Courtship; Crime; Domestic; Humour; Manners / Society; Mystery; Travel; England, America;
Dialect Speakers
1.
Coachman - Coachman
2.
Squire Burns - Squire
3.
Ophelia and Euphrosyne - Daughters of squire
4.
Richard Dally - Poacher
5.
Workman - Workman
6.
Miss Fidkin - Daughter of surveyor-general, social climber
7.
Susan - Girlfriend
8.
Madame de Clairville - Wife of a professional
9.
Free black help, black urchin - Servants
10.
Emily Warner - Father is a wealthy merchant
44
Fraser, James Baillie (1832)
Adventure; Courtship; Crime; Inheritance / Identity; Scottish Highlands;
Dialect Speakers
1.
Narrator (third person) - Individual
2.
Duncan Maccombich - Forester
3.
The girl - Child - daughter of smuggler
4.
Smuggler - Smuggler
5.
Henry Tresham - Wealthy, well-educated young man
6.
Ballytully - Laird
7.
Kenny - Gillie
8.
Grizzy Mac Farlane - Housekeeper & healer
9.
Andrew Cumming - Gardener
10.
Mairack - Child
11.
Elsie - nurse
12.
Laundry maid - Laundry maid
13.
Landworkers - Land workers / gillies
14.
Smugglers - Ruffians and smugglers
45
Gaskill, Peter (1836)
Inheritance / Identity; Satirical; Manchester, Cheshire;
Dialect Speakers
1.
Mrs Manford - Mother of mill-owner
2.
Sir John Manford - Mill-owner, later knighted
3.
Mrs Nancy Manford - Wife of mill-owner
4.
Count (no forename given) Hartmann - Aristocrat
5.
Thomas Manford - Brother of Mill-owner
6.
(no forename given) Sampson - Mill worker/ insurrectionist
7.
Trickle - Mill-owner
8.
Jenny - Runs house in which foundlings lodge
9.
Sir John Scarsbrook - Baronet
10.
Lady Lucy Haggerton - Lady
11.
Jem Ward - Servant - factotum
12.
Johnny (no surname given) - Poet
13.
Lord Charles Haggerton - Lord
46
Green, Sarah (1824)
Courtship; Domestic; Humour; Manners / Society; Satirical;
Dialect Speakers
1.
Mr Fennel - Professional
2.
Alice Fennel - Daughter of professional
3.
Narrator (third person) - Individual
4.
Robert Butler - Son of retired businessman
5.
Lady Macbane - Wife of Scottish Laird
6.
Alexander Macbane - Laird
7.
Miss Southgate - Socialite
8.
Timothy Rawlins - Manservant to Lovemore
9.
Betty - Cook
47
Griffin, Gerald Joseph (1836)
Historical; Humour; Political; Tragedy; Taunton (Somerset, England);
Dialect Speakers
1.
Landlord - Public house landlord
2.
Ephraim - Messenger
3.
Pitman - Beadle
4.
Shamus Delaney - Soldiers
5.
Morty Delaney - Soldier
48
Hamilton, Elizabeth (1808)
Didactic / Moralising; Domestic; Social Commentary; Scotland;
Dialect Speakers
1.
Boy - Boy
2.
The farmer - Farmer
3.
Mrs MacClarty - Farmer's wife
4.
Jean - Child, daughter of farmer
5.
Narrator (third person) - Individual
6.
Farmer MacClarty - Farmer
7.
Neighbours of the MacClarty's - Not given, but presumably on a par with the McClartys
49
Hamilton, , Alexander (1836)
Chivalric; Courtship; Gothic; Historical; Inheritance / Identity; Angus, Scotland;
Dialect Speakers
1.
Old beldam - Old beldam
2.
Man-at-arms - Man-at-arms
3.
Boatman - Boatman
4.
Sailors/pirates - Sailors/ pirates
5.
Geordie Goldcraft - Burgess
6.
King James V - King
7.
John Mackilrie - Jester
50
Hatton, Anne Julia Kemble (1816)
Courtship; Domestic; Manners / Society; Country village (Hannington);
Dialect Speakers
1.
Lucy Harrowby - Child
2.
Molly Mitcham - Individual
3.
Crispin Parkins - Cobbler
4.
Margery Parkins - Wife of cobbler
5.
Mr Dip - Tallow-chandler
6.
Mrs Dip - Wife of tallow chandler
7.
Miss Dip - Daughter of tallow-chandler
8.
Old woman - Servant