John Hartley (poet)
John Hartley (1839–1915) was an
Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire
.
Hartley wrote and edited the Original Illuminated Clock Almanack from 1866 to his death.
Most of Hartley's works are written in dialect.
Hartley wrote a number of books featuring the character "Sammywell Grimes", who has a number of adventures and suffers unfortunate mishaps.
Works
- Yorkshire Ditties, First Series
- Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series
- Yorkshire Tales, First Series
- Yorkshire Tales, Second Series
- Yorkshire Tales, Third Series
- Yorkshire Lyrics (1898)
- Pensive Poems and Startling Stories
- A Rolling Stone. A Tale of Wrongs and Revenge
- Mally An' Me : A selection of Humorous and Pathetic Incidents from the Life of Sammywell Grimes and His Wife Mally (1902)
- Yorksher Puddin (1876)
- A Sheaf from the Moorland - A Collection of Original Poems
- Grimes' Visit To Th' Queen. A Royal Time Amang Royalties
- Seets I'Lundun: A Yorkshireman's Ten Days' Trip
- Seets i' Yorkshire and Lancashire or Grimes' Comical Trip from Leeds to Liverpool by Canal
- Seets i' Blackpool - Grimes at the Seaside
- Seets i' Paris - Sammywell Grimes’s trip with his old chum Billy Baccus; his opinion o’th' French, and th' French opinion o’th' exhibition he made ov hissen.
- Grimes' Trip to America - Ten letters from Sammywell to John Jones Smith
- Sammywell Grimes An' his Wife Mally Laikin I' Lakeland: A Humorous Account of their Visit to the Home of Famous Poets, &c., &c.
External links
- Works by John Hartley at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John Hartley at Internet Archive
- Works by John Hartley at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Yorkshire Ditties by John Hartley - Link fails 25 October 2008 - permissions
- John Hartley at Old Poetry
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