{"id":32,"date":"2012-12-24T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/2012\/12\/24\/bards-and-authors-of-cleveland-and-south-durham-1872-pdf-george-markham-tweddell\/"},"modified":"2012-12-24T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T00:19:00","slug":"bards-and-authors-of-cleveland-and-south-durham-1872-pdf-george-markham-tweddell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/georgemarkhamtweddell\/2012\/12\/24\/bards-and-authors-of-cleveland-and-south-durham-1872-pdf-george-markham-tweddell\/","title":{"rendered":"Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872 PDF – George Markham Tweddell"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Cleveland and North Yorkshire rarely feature in the literature maps but there’s a surprising history in these parts that led George Markham Tweddell <\/b>to write The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham in 1872<\/i>, explaining that –<\/span>
\n“ I have long cherished the idea of a work similar to Chambers’s excellent Cyclopedia of English Literature, to be confined to the poets and prose writers of the North of  England…to Parody Leigh Hunter, I could name a local writer for every tick of my watch<\/i>“<\/span>
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\nThe idea was for a much wider North of England work but, as he explains, the idea for a more localised volume came from his friend ‘Chips’ who proposed the idea in 1860 while Tweddell Master of the Ragged and Industrial school<\/i> in Bury. On returning to Stokesley, Tweddell, on finding that his friend did not have the time to complete the task, took it on and made it his own as he explains in more detail in the Dedication to the book. It was a surprise to find the book only availbable in the reference library or antiquarian books shops at quite a price when most of this knowledge was largly unknown. In 2005 I bought an original 1872 copy and you can now rdownload the PDF file which is housed on Google Drive. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nClick below to read as a flipbook or download Free<\/b> the original version of George Markham Tweddell<\/b>‘s Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe book is 392 pages long with woodcuts of the various authors \/ poets, a dedication, introduction and index and the chapters contain a mix of biography, historical commentary, poems and extracts of prose by the authors. Writers from Whitby to Hartlepool, from 500 AD to the 1800’s of varying styles and backgrounds – a treasure trove of literature that includes the following writers –<\/span><\/p>\n

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