Lancashire Characters and Places

By Newbigging, Thomas

Book Id: WPLBN0002951985
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File Size: 125.03 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Lancashire Characters and Places
Author:	Newbigging, Thomas
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Essay/Short nonfiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Lancashire Characters and Places
Historic Publication Date:	1891
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Newbigging, B. T. (1891). Lancashire Characters and Places. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford, Chesshire, living in between in Rossendale, Pernambuco, and Manchester. A gas manager by profession and writer-historian by inclination, his two major works were the Handbook for Gas Engineers and Managers (1889) and the History of the Forest of Rossendale (1893). (Summary by Phil Benson)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Essay/Short nonfiction