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Edwin Waugh (1817–1890)
Waugh, Edwin. 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); ‘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); ‘Sancho’s Wallet’; ‘The Chimney Corner’ (1879); etc. ‘Posies from a Country Garden’ (2 vols., 1865) is a selection from his poems.