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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
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