Walter Hampson

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Names

First Name:

Walter

Last Name(s):

Hampson

Gender:

male

Bio Dates

Birth Year:

1864

Death Year:

1932

Locations

Nationality:

English

Birthplace:

Normanton, West Yorkshire

Transatlantic:

No

Class and Labor

Industry:

Occupation:

Education

Education Types:

Self-taught (autodidact)

References and Sources

References and Sources:

Biblio Texts:

xxxvii, 92-4

Other Analog References:

P. Wood, Walter Hampson 1864-1932. A Brief Study of one of Yorkshire’s most gifted dialect authors and poets (1998, copy in Wakefield library)

Patrick Joyce, Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England (CUP, 1994), 74-5 (this gives further references)

Periodical Publications:

The Original Clock Almanack: in the Yorkshire Dialect

Bob Stubbs Original Comic Yorksher Awmynack

Manuscript Information:

Normanton Past and Present. Listed in the Wakefield library catalog; unpublished.

Publication Notes:

Hampson co-edited with with Abe Warkup, Bob Stubbs Original Comic Yorksher Awmynack for 1925 (Bradford: Watmough, 1925).

Dialect:

Yorkshire

Dialect Usage Description:

Hampson was known especially for his humorous prose dialect work: he is ‘our Yorkshire Mark Twain’, writes Moorman. (Superlist)

PoetId:

658

Priority:

1 - Mirrors Superlist - Additional Research Necessary

Internal Comments:

A number of sources confuse or merge Hampson’s publications with those of another working-class writer, the Dublin-born writer, socialist, musician and lecturer also named Walter Hampson, who published as ‘Casey’, and whose vital dates appear to closely match those of the poet.

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Walter Hampson's Publications

Title	Publication Date	Publisher	Other Editions
A Yorkshire Tyke: A Dialect Poem			Edition: 2 Location: Barnsley Publication Date: 1917 Publication Date Approximated
Tykes Abrooad. An accahnt of Joss Jenkins’ travels and trials throo Normanton to Normandy, etc	1911	W. Nicholson & Sons
Pte. Job Muggleston; or, “Fun i’ th’ Army,” etc.	1917	W. Nicholson & Sons
A Wheel in Wharfeland: A holiday tour in a land of natural beauty, romance and historical associations	1918	W. Nicholson & Sons
Joss Jenkins and His Pals Go Carol Singin’: When Jemmy Greased His Flute	1919	W. Nicholson & Sons
Roomin’ i’ Rooam, Flirtin’ i’ Florence, Voyagin’ in Venice	1934

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