Miriam A Tale Of Pole Moor And The Greenfield Hills
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Miriam
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Author : Daniel Frederick Edward Sykes
language : en
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Release Date : 1912
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Miriam A Tale Of Pole Moor And The Greenfield Hills
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Author : D. F. E. Sykes
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-05-20
Miriam A Tale Of Pole Moor And The Greenfield Hills written by D. F. E. Sykes and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-20 with Fiction categories.
This fiction presents a thrilling murder mystery connecting the lead characters to The Burn Platts, an area above Slaithwaite near Pole Moor where some Romanies lived around the time of an incident that occurred in 1832, at the Moorcock Inn, on the border of the bleak moorland above Greenfield near Saddleworth. At this isolated pub, the landlord and his gamekeeper son were brutally murdered. This quest to find the murders is worth reading. The gripping plot, memorable characters, and unique writing style make this work enjoyable. This work includes significant portions of the dialect used at that time in the region when Greenfield was a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The local Saddleworth author, D. F. E. Sykes, has tried to reproduce this phonetically using the traditional alphabet. This work is a must-read for anyone curious about this dialect and, of course, all the murder mystery lovers.
Miriam
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Author : D F Sykes
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Release Date : 2023-06-20
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Miriam By Daniel Frederick Edward Sykes
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Author : Daniel Frederick Edward Sykes
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Release Date : 2017-04-10
Miriam By Daniel Frederick Edward Sykes written by Daniel Frederick Edward Sykes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-10 with categories.
IT was the first morning of the eagerly awaited Saddleworth Wakes in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, a year so full of great doings in the country, and followed by a year of still greater doings, that there is little marvel that I call it easily to mind. I had been out of bed by cock-crow to steal across the bare, worm-eaten boards of the chamber floor as prattily as my six feet of height and fourteen stone of weight would permit, to peer through the long diamond-paned window of bottle-green glass up the valley towards Greenfield, the quarter whence we folk of Biggie got our weather. It was a glorious sun-rising and promised a glorious day, and so I stole back to bed in great content, glad that though it was not the Sabbath I could stretch my long limbs between the blankets-sheets were an unknown luxury for such folk as myself and fellow chamberer, Jim Haigh, sometimes called Jim o' 'Lijah's, sometimes Jim th' Tuner, but more often simply Th' Tuner.I suppose so small a bedroom rarely accommodated two men of our inches. For if I was six-feet-nothing in my stocking-feet, Jim o'ertopped me by a good four inches, and, whilst I was still, as it were, in the making, and lank and willowy, Jim, though but four years my senior, which made him four-and-twenty, was broad and deep chested, with the arms and legs of a very son of Anak. The turn-up bed,"Contrived a double debt to pay,A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day,"into which Jim insinuated himself very gingerly o' nights, creaked and groaned under his weight, and every morning he woke with cold feet, for the simple reason that they stretched a good half yard out of the bottom of the bedstead. He could not stand upright in our little chamber, and as for yawning and stretching himself, as one does in rousing from insufficient sleep, it was sheer out of the question. A giant truly was my friend Jim, but surely the gentlest and simplest of all created mortals, save when roused to wrath (and that he was not easily), and then let lesser men beware, for Jim in those rare moods knew not his own strength, and I'd as lieve have countered a sledge-hammer in punier hands as met the fall of Jim's clenched fists.Yet, curiously enough, this man of mighty girth and sinew held me in a sort of wondering reverence. For, despite my protests, Jim insisted to all and sundry of our common acquaintance that I was what he called a "powerful scholard"-I, whom my reverend father, the pastor of Pole Moor Chapel, had wept over and finally despaired of as a hopeless dunce and dullard, unfit for that ministry to which I had been destined from my cradle. Read and write I could 'tis true, nor could I truthfully say "the rule of three did puzzle me, and fractions drove me mad." English history from the great Alfred's time to poor, mad George the Third's I knew fairly well, and could, under compulsion make out from the Latin how Balbus built a wall. But it was when my father set me to the Hebrew, maintaining that a minister of the Gospel should be able to read the Law and Prophets in their original,-it was then, I say that I struck and roundly declared that a parson I would never be. And so it came that I was bound 'prentice at Wrigley Mill to learn the full craft of a master clothier, pledging myself by solemn covenant "my master well and faithfully to serve, his secrets keep, Hurt or Damage to him not to do, Alehouses and ill Company not to frequent, nor Matrimony contract." As if, commented Jim, when I read over to him these articles, a man would be likely to get wed on the "One shilling yearly for Pocket Money" which, with "Meat, Drink, Washing, Lodging, and two good Suits of Apparel as well Linen as Woollen," was all I got for working like a slave for "th' owd felly," as my master was called by his hands.
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Author : D. F. E. Sykes
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-04-22
Miriam By Daniel Frederick Edward Sykes Large Print written by D. F. E. Sykes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-22 with categories.
I must have dropped off into a morning dose, for when I came back again to consciousness Jim was sat on the side of his couch, a little rickety, spindle-shanked, rush-bottomed chair in front of him, against the back of which was propped a small mirror about the size of a sheet of note-paper, its usefulness and beauty much marred by a crack that ran diagonally across a blotted surface. The half of a cocoanut shell, which served Jim as a shaving pot, rested on the floor, and Jim was alternately stropping a very harsh-scraping razor, lathering his face and throat, and shaving himself as he wielded the razor in the right hand and pinched his nose firmly with the left."Did ta' ivver hear tell o' th' lad at th' schooil at th' inspector wer' hearkening to read?" he broke off to ask, when he noticed that I had opened my eyes."What about him?" I asked."Well he come to one o' them guisehanged long names i' th' Bible, an' baulked at it. 'Say summat sharp,' whispers th' schooilmester. 'Razzer,' says th' lad, 'Razzer'. But it wer' noan this razzer I'll go bail, for I've stropped it till mi shackle warks, an' I'd as soon tha' took a curry comb to me for comfort.""You're making yourself mighty fine to-day, Jim, and it isn't one of your Sundays for Church," I commented, noticing his knee-breeches, and that he had already donned polished shoon with buckles of nickel silver and a striped and starred linen shirt."Church? No, thank God. It's noan Church to-day. I'm off to th' Wakes, and so are ta', mi hearty. Why, man, it's th' Rushbearing, an' aw've n'er missed th' Rushbearing sin' aw wer' a little 'un, an' aw n'er mean to. There'll be some ale stirring to-day at th' Church, aw can tell thee, an' aw'st ha' mi share on 't, tha' may bet thi Sunday booits.""At the Church?" I queried."Aye, th' Church Inn, to be sure. Don't thee act so gaumless. Ger up an' don thee, lad. Aw do believe there's a collop for breakfas', aw hear it sizzlin', an' smell it, too, for that matter. So doant tha be so greedy on th' porridge, leave a corner for th' collop."And if any assurance were needed that breakfast was well forward it was supplied by the shrill voice of Mother Haigh calling at the bottom of the stairs:"Are yo' idle good-for-nowts goin' to lig i' bed till th' wheel starts to morn? Th' porridge's bin ready this bit back, an' th' bacon's welly stuck to th' pan bottom Ger up, do."Was there ever so clean a kitchen as Mary Haigh's, I wonder. Certainly there never was one oftener fettled. Jim's mother had few household gods, but those I verily believe she worshipped. The floor was sanded, the hearth blue-storied, the steel fender shone like burnished silver, you could see your face reflected with queer distortions in the brass knob of the oven door, the oaken press and settle and the deal chairs fairly sparkled with what Mary called elbow grease, the top of the little round three-legged table was white almost as driven snow. And as for Mary herself, sure never was a nattier little woman in all Yorkshire or Lancashire to boot. Nor a harder working. She was a tewer, as all the country-side would tell you, and always had been since she had been left a widow with little Jim still at the breast. She'd kept herself and Jim too, and anyone could see that Jim at all events hadn't wanted. Even yet she did some burling in the house, and many of the hands at Wrigley's paid her no less than a penny a week-bar missings-to heat their dinners for them, and in summer time she brewed for the behoof of the mill-girls a sweet and heady beverage called treacle-drink, of which the great merit was that it cost only a meg, in other words a half-penny, the quart, but which, Jim avowed, more in sorrow than in anger, possessed the fatal drawback that you got no forrader on a bucketful.We'd an extra spread for this morning's meal in honour of the Wakes. We started on the porridge.
Miriam A Tale Of Pole Hill And The Greenfield Hills
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Author : Daniel Frederick Edward Sykes
language : en
Publisher: anboco
Release Date : 2017-06-23
Miriam A Tale Of Pole Hill And The Greenfield Hills written by Daniel Frederick Edward Sykes and has been published by anboco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-23 with Fiction categories.
MIRIAM: A Tale of Pole Moor and the Greenfield Hills links the protagonists to The Burn Platts, an area above Slaithwaite near Pole Moor where a group of Romanys or Gypsies lived around the time of an incident which took place, in 1832, at the Moorcock Inn, on the edge of the bleak moorland above Greenfield near Saddleworth. It was at this remote pub that the landlord and his gamekeeper son were violently murdered. The Burnplatters were described by MR. G. S. Philips in 1848 as a group of savages "living in log huts thatched with sods, and paying neither rent nor taxes. They were a community to themselves, and had their own wild laws and government. They were the terror likewise of all wayfarers, and it was dangerous for any man to go amongst them alone." It includes substantial portions of dialect spoken at that time in the area when Greenfield was still part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The author has attempted to reproduce this phonetically using the conventional alphabet. He is not always consistent in the way the dialect is transcribed though this in itself illustrates the nature of dialect.
Tom Pinder Foundling
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Author : D. F. E. Sykes
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-05-19
Tom Pinder Foundling written by D. F. E. Sykes and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-19 with Fiction categories.
Tom Pinder, Foundling is a romantic and moral tale set in the early period of the 19th Century. It focuses on the life of an orphan, Victorian values, the beginning of the cooperative movement, and the Holmfirth flood. The story's backdrop is Greenfield and Holme Valleys. It was a time when both were a part of West Yorkshire. D. F. E. Sykes was a talented scholar, lawyer, local politician, and newspaper owner. He was one of few novelists who chose to portray the lives of ordinary people of his period. For this reason alone, this work is a valuable work on social history. His use of the local dialect and ability to sketch exciting characters and their relationships adds significantly to the novel's readability.
Sister Gertrude
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Author : Daniel Frederick Edward Sykes
language : en
Publisher: anboco
Release Date : 2017-06-21
Sister Gertrude written by Daniel Frederick Edward Sykes and has been published by anboco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-21 with Fiction categories.
In all of Sykes' novels he draws heavily on his own life experiences though none more so than in this, his third, semi-autobiographical novel. The Edward Beaumont of the novel is indeed Sykes; his solicitors practice and early political aspirations are featured along with his romance of the daughter of a Lincolnshire vicar. From newspaper articles we can also confirm that he was a councillor and a potential parliamentary candidate for the West Staffordshire constituency; his embroilment with the weavers dispute, bankruptcy and his dependency on alcohol are also well documented. He is however selective in what he chooses to reveal about himself and uses artistic licence to make the book more readable. He does give us an insight into his ideas, opinions and aspirations and the turmoil he must have endured before turning his life around. It is a salutary lesson in how a talented man can be destroyed for his convictions and his struggle, with support, to regain his self-respect.
The Bibliography Of Regional Fiction In Britain And Ireland 1800 2000
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Author : Keith D. M. Snell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
The Bibliography Of Regional Fiction In Britain And Ireland 1800 2000 written by Keith D. M. Snell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries. In addition, other regions of a usually topographical or urban nature have been used, such as Birmingham and the Black Country; London; The Fens; the Brecklands; the Highlands; the Hebrides; or the Welsh border. Each entry lists the author, title, and date of first publication. The geographical coverage is encompassing and complete, from the Channel Islands to the Shetlands. An original introduction discusses such matters as definition, bibliographical method, popular readerships, trends in output, and the scholarly literature on regional fiction.
Echoes And Evidences Of The Book Of Mormon
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Author : Donald W. Parry
language : en
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Release Date : 2002
Echoes And Evidences Of The Book Of Mormon written by Donald W. Parry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Book of Mormon categories.