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 |10 pages

Henry Brown (fl. 1830-35)

chapter |5 pages

Mary Maria Colling (1805-53)

chapter |7 pages

John Jones (b. 1774)

chapter |17 pages

Mary Hutton (fl. 1831-42)

chapter |11 pages

Richard Furness (1791-1857)

chapter |19 pages

Thomas Lister (fl. 1834)

chapter |8 pages

John Younger (1785-1860)

chapter |6 pages

Evan Maccoll (1808-98)

chapter |17 pages

Thomas Miller (1807-74)

chapter |15 pages

John Critchley Prince (1808-66)

chapter |15 pages

Samuel Bamford (1788-1872)

chapter |14 pages

William Thom (1799-1848)

chapter |18 pages

George Richardson (fl. 1844)

chapter |18 pages

Robert Peddie (fl. 1844)

chapter |16 pages

Thomas Cooper (1805-92)

chapter |15 pages

William Heaton (1801-71)

chapter |8 pages

Mary Pyper (1795-1870)

chapter |16 pages

‘Marie’ (fl. 1846-52)

chapter |21 pages

Janet Hamilton (1795-1873)

chapter |22 pages

Gerald Massey (1828-1907)

chapter |11 pages

Edward Capern (1819-94)

chapter |14 pages

James Macfarlan (1832-62)

chapter |15 pages

Edwin Waugh (1817-90)

chapter |3 pages

Ben Brierley (1825-96)

chapter |13 pages

Israel Holdsworth (b. 1816)