Lancashire Characters and Places
Author(s): Thomas Newbigging
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Social Science (culture & Anthropology)
Narrators: Phil Benson
Number of Chapters: 14
Length: 4 hours and 20 minutes
Language: English
An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford, Chesshire, living in between in Rossendale, Pernambuco, and Manchester. A gas manager by profession and writer-historian by inclination, his two major works were the Handbook for Gas Engineers and Managers (1889) and the History of the Forest of Rossendale (1893). (Summary by Phil Benson)
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The audiobook Lancashire Characters and Places falls under the genres of Essays & Short Works, Social Science (culture & Anthropology). It is written by Thomas Newbigging.