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EDWIN WAUGH (1817-1890)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 423 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWIN
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WAUGH (1817-1890)  , known as " The
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Lancashire Poet," was
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born at
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Rochdale, on the 29th of
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January 1817, the son of a shoemaker . For several years he earned his living as a journeyman printer in various parts of the
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country . In 1855 he published his first
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book, Sketches of Lancashire
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Life and Localities, following this up with reprinted Poems and Songs (1859) . His rendering of the Lahcashire
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dialect was most happy, and his
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rude lyrics, full of
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humour and pathos, were
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great favourites with his countrymen . He died on the 30th of
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April 1890 See
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Milner's Memoir in an edition of
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Waugh's selected
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works (1892-1893) .

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