EDWIN WAUGH
\ˈɛdwɪn wˈɔː], \ˈɛdwɪn wˈɔː], \ˈɛ_d_w_ɪ_n w_ˈɔː]\
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An English dialect-writer; born at Rochdale, Lancashire, Jan. 29, 1817; died at New Brighton, April 30, 1890. He wrote "Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities" (1855; 4th ed. 1869); "Poems and Lancashire Songs" (1859); "Rambles in the Lake Country and its Borders" (1862); "Tufts of Heather from the Lancashire Moors" (1864); "Irish Sketches"; "Home Life of the Lancashire Factory-Folk" (1866); "Sancno's Wallet"; "The Chimney Corner" (1879); etc. "Posies from a Country Garden" (2 vols., 1865) is a selection from his poems.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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