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BENJAMIN See also: English See also: weaver and writer in See also: Lancashire dialect, was See also: born near Manchesteg, the son of humble parents, and started See also: life in a textile factory, educating himself in his spare See also: time
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At about the age of See also: thirty he began to contribute articles to See also: local papers, and the republication of some of his sketches of Lancashire character in A Summer See also: Day in See also: Daisy Nook (1859) attracted See also: attention
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In 1863 he definitely took to journalism and literature as his See also: work, See also: publishing in 1863 his See also: Chronicles of Waverlow, and in 1864 a long See also: story called The Layrock of See also: Langley See also: Side (afterwards dramatized), followed by others
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He started in 1869 See also: Ben See also: Brierley's Journal, a weekly, which continued till 1891, and he gave public readings from his own writings, visiting See also: America in 188o and 1884
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His various Ab-o'-lh'-Yate sketches (about America, See also: London, &c.), and his pictures of Lancashire See also: common life; were very popular, and were collected after his See also: death
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In 1884 he lost his savings by the failure of a See also: building society, and a fund was raised for his support
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He died on the 18th of See also: January 1896, and two years later a statue was erected to him in See also: Queen's See also: Park, Manchester
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