ABSTRACT

Over 100 poets of labouring class origin were published in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some were hugely popular and important in their day but few are available today. This is a collection of some of those poems from the 19th century.

chapter |32 pages

Samuel Laycock (1826-1893)

chapter |21 pages

Richard Watson (1833-1891)

chapter |10 pages

David Wingate (1828-92)

chapter |8 pages

Thomas Blackah (1828-1895)

chapter |27 pages

John Bedford Leno (1826-1894)

chapter |30 pages

Ellen Johnston (c. 1835-1873)

chapter |14 pages

John Macleay Peacock (1817-1877)

chapter |29 pages

Joe Wilson (1841-1872)

chapter |17 pages

Fanny Forrester (1852-1889)

chapter |18 pages

John Gregory (1831-1922)

chapter |30 pages

Joseph Skipsey (1832-1903)

chapter |27 pages

Alexander Anderson (1845-1909)

chapter |18 pages

Noah Cooke (1831-1919)

chapter |18 pages

Jessie Russell (1850-1923)

chapter |13 pages

William Mcgonagall (c. 1825-1902)

chapter |5 pages

Effie Williamson (1815-82)

chapter |14 pages

Robert Maybee (1810-1891)

chapter |4 pages

Frederick Bartlett (fl. 1886)

chapter |12 pages

Robert Jones Derfel (1824-1905)

chapter |10 pages

Ben Brierley (1825-1896)