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Wilson, Daniel (1801-81), of Pineberry Hill, Halifax, self-taught, preacher, bookseller, pub. Justice and mercy: a sacred poem (Halifax, 1883), Ref: Reilly (1994), 517. Wilson, Gavin (fl. 1788), shoemaker poet, pub. A Collection of Masonic Songs and entertaining anecdotes, for the use of all lodges (Edinburgh, 1788), Advertisement of thanks, in verse (Edinburgh, 1780?, 1789, 1790). Ref: LC 3, 133-4; Winks, 313. [LC 3] [S] Wilson, Hugh C. (b. ?1845), ‘Cowper Spearpoint’, of Cumnock, Ayrshire, herdsman, woodman, bailiff in Beckenham, Kent, pub. The rustic harp: a collection of poems, songs, etc., English and Scotch (Bournemouth, 1874); Wild sprays from the garden (1879). Ref: Edwards 1, 70-2; Reilly (2000), 501, Murdoch, 406-8. [S] Wilson, Joe (1841-72), of Newcastle upon Tyne, son of a cabinet maker and a bonnet-maker, apprentice printer, publisher, highly popular entertainer, publican; a ‘traditional working class songwriter’ and performer of ‘drolleries’, a form of stand-up comedy in rhyme and prose. He sang in dialect to great effect in songs like ‘Keep Yor Feet Still Geordie Hinney’, ‘Dinnet Clash the Door’, ‘Maw Bonnie Gyetside Lass’ and ‘Aw Wish Your Muther Wad Come’. His Tyneside Songs and Drolleries. Readings and Temperance Songs (Newcastle upon Tyne: Thomas and George Allan, n.d.) went through a number of editions in the last decades of the nineteenth century and there are modern reprints of it. There have been numerous revivals of his work; for example, a Tyneside Theatre production by Alex Glasgow and John Woodvine took up the singer’s life and works in Joe Lives (1971), and like other north-eastern labouring-class poet-songmakers of his era, notably Tommy Armstrong (qv) his work remains popular in folk circle. In 2011 the band The Unthanks included their arrangement of Wilson’s hymn to the unreliable Geordie male, ‘The Gallowgate Lad’, in their live set and on their album Last. Ref: ODNB; LC 6, 145-74; Allan, 473-82; Vicinus (1974), 144. [LC 6] ? Wilson, John (b. 1731-1818), of Paisley, ‘bar-officer in the Sheriff Court’, but also worked in a weaving factory and ‘was the first man in Paisley who wrought a silk web’. Ref: Brown, I, 27-29. [S] Wilson, John, of Longtown (b. 1835), joiner, businessman, temperance writer, pub. Selections of Thought from the Leisure Hours of a Working Man (1874), Saved by Song: or How John Strong became a Teetotaler (1882). Ref: Edwards, 5, 377-82. [S] Wilson, Michael (1763-1840), son of a handloom weaver, printer and furniture-broker, radical, dialect poet (as were his sons Thomas and Alexander, qqv). See The Songs of the Wilsons, with A Memoir of the Family, by John Harland (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1865). Ref: Hollingworth (1977), 156; Hollingworth (2013), 295-8. Wilson, Susanna(h) (b. 1787), servant, pub. Familiar Poems (1814); described as ‘A servant girl who has evinced some respectable talents in a volume which has been published by subscription for her benefit’. Ref: John Watkins and Frederic Shoberl, A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland ... (London: 1816, p.393). [F] [—Dawn Whatman] Wilson, Thomas (d. 1856), of Manchester, weaver’s son and dialect songwriter. brother to Alexander (qv), spent time in prison for breaking the blockade against France and smuggling gold. See The Songs of the Wilsons, with A Memoir of the Family, by John Harland (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1865). Ref Hollingsworth (2013), 255-8. Wilson, Thomas (1773-1858), of Gateshead, poet, son of a miner, sent down the pit at eight as a trapper boy, later a merchant, schoolmaster and alderman, wrote The Pitman’s Pay in miner’s patois, first pub. in Mitchell’s ‘Newcastle Magazine’ in 1826, 1828, and 1830, reprinted by G. Watson of Gateshead, ‘but this incorrect edition was soon out of print’. Other poems were pub. in the Tyne Mercury, some reissued with notes by John Sykes, compiler of ‘Local Records.’ A collective edition of Wilson’s works, The Pitman’s Pay and Other Poems was pub. in 1843, reprinted 1872, with some additional poems and notes by the author, with a portrait and memoir. Ref: LC 4, 257-74; ODNB/DNB; Allan, 43, 258-77; Welford, III, 650-3; Klaus (1985), 72-4; Sutton, 1006 (diary). [LC 4] ? Wilson, Thomas (fl. 1839), of Leeds, Chartist, poet; imprisoned in 1839; pub. poems in the Northern Star. Ref: Kovalev, 110; Scheckner, 322, 345; Schwab 222. [C] Wilson, Thomas (d. 1852), of Newcastle upon Tyne, dealer in smallware, son of Michael Wilson (qv), for most of his life worked as partner in a counting-house in Newcastle, dialect poet. Pub. popular poem The Pitman's Pay in Newcastle Magazine (1826, 1828, 1830), later republished as The Pitman's Pay and Other Poems (1843, 1873; the 2nd edn contains additional poems, memoir and notes by the author). Ref: ODNB; Hollingworth (1977), 156. Wilson, William (1801-60), of Creiff, known by pseudonyms ‘Alpin’ and ‘Allan Grant’, cowherd, cloth-lapper, coal-seller, journalist, bookseller and publisher, moved to Glasgow then emigrated to the USA (1833), died at Poughkeepsie, posthumously pub. Poems (1870, 3rd enlarged edn, 1881), devised ‘Poets and Poetry of Scotland’, pub. by his son James Grant Wilson, in 1877. Ref: ODNB; Ross, 77-83; Edwards, 4, 29-31 and 13, 223-31. [S] Wilson, William (1817-50), weaver, of Paisley, pub. 12-page collection, Poetical Pieces Composed by a Young Author (Paisley, 1842). Ref: Brown, II, 66-71; Leonard, 118. [S] Wilson, William (b. 1830), of Burntisland, blacksmith and watchmaker, pub. Echoes of the Anvil: Songs and Poems (Edinburgh, 1866, 1885). Ref: Reilly (1994), 519; Edwards, 8, 69-76. [S] Wingate, David (1828-92), of Cowglen, Renfrewshire, miner from the age of nine, later colliery manager, pub. Annie Weir and Other Poems (Edinburgh, 1866), Poems and Songs, 2nd edn (London and Edinburgh, 1863; Glasgow, 1883), Lily Neil: a poem (Edinburgh, 1879). Ref: LC 6, 55-64; Glasgow Poets, 364-68; Wilson, II, 459-65, Ashraf (1975), 242-3, Klaus (1985), 74-5, 76, Leonard, 241-60, Reilly (2000), 503-4, Reilly (1994), 519-20, Edwards, 2, 283-9 and 13, 84; see also John Macleay Peacock, ‘To David Wingate, the Collier Poet’, in his Poems (1880), 101-3. [S] [LC 6] Wingfield, Alexander H. (b. 1828), of Blantyre, Lanarkshire, sent to work in a cotton factory in Glasgow at age 9, emigrated to America in 1847, to Auburn, NY, later to Hamilton, Ontario, working as a mechanic on the Great Western Railway for 18 years, then for the Canadian Customs Department. Ref: Ross, 136-43. [S] Withers, James Reynolds (1812-98), ‘The Cambridgeshire Poet’, of Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, shoemaker poet, pub. Poems upon various subjects, 3 vols (Cambridge, 1856-61), Rustic song and wayside musings, 4th edn (London, 1867), Poems (London, 1869). Ref: Maidment (1987), 314-16l Reilly (2000), 504-5. Withy, Nathan[iel], ‘The Wandering Bard’, of Wolverhampton, self-taught protegé of Lord Lyttelton, who gave him a cottage on the Hagley estate; he made mathematical rhymes and sold his versified multiplication tables door-to-door, author of Miscellaneous Poems (4th edn, Wolverhampton, 1777, Dobell 2101, BL 11632.aa.52); An Admonition to the Watermen (Worcester, 1786?, BL 11622.c.22(2)); A History of England (Wolverhampton, 1785, BL 16098/4724). Ref: Dobell; Poole & Markland, 97-9; Hepburn, II, 484, 555n. ? Wood, Benjamin, Lancashire dialect writer, pub. “Sparks for a smithy”: Lancashire recitations, suitable for public readings or social gatherings (Bury and Manchester, 1879). Ref: Reilly (2000), 505. ? Wood, Athol John, Chartist poet, pub. political poems in The Red Republican, The Friend of the People and Notes to the People, for example ‘Thou Art a Self-Degraded Slave’ (Friend of the People, 1851) Ref: Kovalev, 133-4, Scheckner, 322-4. 345; Schwab 222, 229. [C] ? Wood, John Wilson (1834-85), of Cupar, Fyfe, baker’s son, apprentice baker, studied law, lived in America, returned as grocer and spirit merchant, town councillor, pub. The serpent round the soul: a poem (Edinburgh and Cupar, 1870); The gipsy heir, and other poems (Cupar-Fife, 1883); Ceres races. Ref: Reilly (2000), 506; Reilly (1994), 522; Edwards 9, xxiii. [S] Wood, Robert (b. 1850), of Newmilns, Ayrshire, handloom weaver, poems in Murdoch. (Edwards includes a Robert Wood of Newmills, Ayrshire as being of a retiring disposition and being employed in a large Glasgow warehouse, probably the same man.) Ref: ?Edwards, I, 381; Murdoch, 422-3. [S] Wood, William, weaver, of Eyam, Derbyshire, pub. The Genius of the Peak and other Poems (London and Sheffield, 1837). Ref: Johnson, item 990. Woodhouse, James (1735-1820), of Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, shoemaker poet. ~ Woodhouse, born in Rowley, near Birmingham, was a village shoemaker, and although he had been removed from school at seven years old, supplemented his meagre income by teaching literacy. He described balancing his cobbling work on one knee and a book on the other, switching between the pen and the awl throughout his daily routine. ~ Woodhouse’s earliest poems represented petitions to William Shenstone, who had prohibited ‘the rabble’ from visiting his ornamental gardens, The Leasowes, due to their propensity for picking flowers - rather than admiring the scenery with a detached comportment. Keegan (2002) suggests that Woodhouse’s affirmations to Shenstone respond to the conviction that the role of the lower orders in tilling the earth and concentrating on the produce it might yield precluded an ability to appreciate nature’s beauties. However, in constructing himself as an exception to the rule, Woodhouse paradoxically buttresses social distinctions even as he tries to transcend them. ‘An Elegy to William Shenstone, Esq; Of the Lessowes’ (1764) contains the following ingratiating lines: ‘Once thy propitious gates no fears betray'd, / But bid all welcome to the sacred shade; / ’Till Belial’s sons (of gratitude the bane) / With curs'd riot dar'd thy groves profane: / And now their fatal mischiefs I deplore, / Condemn'd to dwell in Paradise no more!’ Nonetheless, the overall vision is one that ‘ranks the peasant equal with the peer’ through an inherent affinity for recreation in nature. ~ Shenstone permitted Woodhouse entry not just to the grounds, but also to the library, which extended his knowledge beyond what he had gleaned from magazines. Five years following the introduction to his benefactor, Woodhouse’s collection of poems was published, in quarto, priced three shillings. Southey (1831, 117) notes: ‘It appears from a piece addressed to Shenstone, upon his ‘Rural Elegance’, that books to which his patron had directed his attention, had induced him to write in a more ambitious strain, and aim at some of the artifices of versification’; Woodhouse speaks of ‘He who form’d the fount of light, / And shining orbs that ornament the night; / Who hangs his silken curtains round the sky; / And trims their skirts with fringe of every dye’. However, it should be noted that these lines are extracted from a volume published nearly forty years after the original edition, quite possibly signaling a process of modification to bring them in line with fashion; indeed, with regard to the development of both Woodhouse and Duck’s poetry, Southey (1831, 118) opines that the freshness and truth of their language becomes compromised when they start to ‘form their style upon some approved model… they then produce just such verses as any person, with a metrical ear, may be taught to make by receipt’. ~ Owing to the patronage of Shenstone and public curiosity concerning a shoemaker Dr. Johnson felt prompted to meet Woodhouse in 1764. Boswell indicates that Johnson viewed Woodhouse’s celebrity status with derision, proclaiming: ‘Such objects were, to those who patronised them, mere mirrors of their own superiority. They had better… furnish the man with good implements for his trade than raise a subscription for his poems’ (cited Southey 1831, 192). However, in the biography prefixed to the collected edition of Woodhouse’s works, Johnson is said to have altered his verdict in light of the poet’s subsequent accomplishments. ~ Shortly following his rise to prominence, Woodhouse left the shoemaking trade to become a carrier, and then a bailiff on Edward Montague’s estate — where he was dismissed for having contrary political and religious attitudes. As Keegan points out, his falling out with Elizabeth Montagu – who, after Shenstone died, engendered his shift from ‘royal patronage of “natural genius” through the agency of Thomas Spence, to the moralizing charity of being made a “bluestocking” cause’ – prefigured her more well-known involvement in the dispute between Hannah More and Ann Yearsley. In 1788, Woodhouse prefixed an ‘Address to the Public’ to a volume of poems, lamenting that he had been ‘growing grey in servitude, and poorer under patronage’, struggling to support his ailing wife and their 27 children. ~ His 28,000-line autobiographical poem The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus was published in 1795. It includes an ambivalent delineation of Birmingham and Wolverhampton. The images of Birmingham’s ‘multiplying streets and villas bright… And Wolverhampton’s turrets… Near northern boundaries tipt with burnish’d gold; / fields, countless cotts and villages, between’, that ‘give life, and lustre to the social Scene’, give way to the violent menace of human industrial activity: ‘Deep, sullen, sounds thro’ all the regions roll, / Shocking with groans, and sighs, each shuddering Soul! / Here clanking engines vomit scalding streams… Obtruding on the heart, each heaving breath, / Some vengeful Fiend, grim delegate of Death!’ Woodhouse also published a collection of nine epistles entitled Love Letters to My Wife (1803), which are in actuality discourses on social and religious matters, featuring attacks on upper-class tyranny. Overton (2006) writes: ‘Like his versification – quite elaborate iambic pentameter couplets, varied by occasional alexandrines – the form is highly artificial, but it provided an acceptable cover for views that might, if expressed more directly, have provoked censure.’ ~ Woodhouse spent the last 35 years of his life as the proprietor of a book and stationery shop in Oxford Street. In the way of curiosity and anecdote, it is claimed that Woodhouse was six feet six inches tall and possessed of tremendous strength. Apparently, he once confronted a ferocious bull with a stick and made it ‘lay down and fairly cry for mercy’ (Southey 1831, 193). Pub. Poems on Sundry Occasions (1764); Poems on Several Occasions. Second edition, corrected, with several additional pieces never bfroe published (London: Dodsley, 1766; subscribers and benefactors include Edmund Burke and David Hume); Poems on Several Occasions (1788); Love Letters to my Wife; written in 1789; Norbury Park, A Poem; With Several Others, Written on Various Occasions (1803); The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus...A novel in verse. Part I (1804); The Life and Poetical Works of James Woodhouse, 2 vols. (1896); The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus, A Selection, ed. Steve Van-Hagen (Cheltenham: Cyder Press, 2005) Ref: LC 2, 141-234; ODNB; Southey, 114-21, 192-4; Poole & Markland, 81-5; Reginald Blunt, Mrs Montagu, “Queen of the Blues”, Her Letters and Friendships from 1777 to 1800, ed Reginald Blunt (Boston and New York: Houghton Miflin, 1923), two vols; Unwin, 71, 74-6; Tinker, 97-9; Winks, 296-7; Klaus (1985); 6-21, Cafarelli, 78-9, 81; Rizzo, 243, 254-8; Richardson, 257; Goodridge (1999), item 131; Christmas, 17, 183-210, 215; Keegan (2008), 37-64; Bill Overton, ‘The Verse Epistle’, in Gerrard (ed) A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006); Sutton, 1009 (letters to Elizabeth Montagu). [LC 2] [—Iain Rowley] Woodley, George (bap. 1786-1846), born in Dartmouth, began writing at age eleven while on board a British man-of war, a seaman who published several volumes of verse, and in 1820 was ordained and went to the Scilly isles as a missionary; pub. Mount-Edgcumbe, a descriptive poem; the shipwreck, a naval eclogue; and miscellaneous verses on several occasions. With notes [Mt. Edgcumbe, with The Shipwreck, and Miscellaneous Verses] (1804, published anonymously); The Churchyard and other Poems (1808); Britain's bulwarks; or, The British seaman: a poem (1811); Portugal delivered, a poem (1812); Redemption (1816); The divinity of Christ proved, from his love to mankind ... and the true Church of Christ ascertained (1819, 2nd edn 1821); Cornubia: a poem (1819), A view of the present state of the Scilly islands (1822). Ref: ODNB. Woodrow, William (b. 1817), of Paisley, pub. poems in periodicals, 1878 collection. Ref: Brown, II, 77-82. [S] Work, Thomas Lawrence (b. 1838), of Aberdeen, printer, emigrated to Australia. Ref: Edwards, 12, 211-19. [S] Wrigglesworth, John (‘Hubert Cloudesley’, 1856-1903), of Castleford, coal miner, pub. Grass from a Yorkshire village (Westminster, 1897). Also published several works under the pseudonym, Hubert Cloudesley, including a collection of essays entitled Passing Thoughts of Working Man (London: Elliot Stock, 1890); a novel, Adventures of the Remarkable Twain (London: Digby, Long & Co, 1899); and a short story collection, Idylls of Yorkshire. By Hubert Cloudesley, Author of “Passing Thoughts,” “The Sweetest Maid in Glowton,” “Grass from a Yorkshire Village,” “Adventures of the Remarkable Twain. etc. (Eland: Henry Watson Lt, n.d. ? 1900). Ref: Reilly (1994), 526. Wright, David, of Aberdeen, ‘footpost’, post office messenger, Chartist activist and organiser and occasional poet. ref Klaus (2013), 151-6. [S] [C] Wright, Joseph (b. 1848), of Airdrie, hairdresser’s son, umbrella manufacturer, friend of Janet Hamilton (qv) from childhood, read to her after she became blind. Ref: Edwards, 4, 274-80; Knox, 253-8 (gives birth as 1847). [S] Wright, John (1805-c. 1846), ‘The Galston Poet’, born in Sorn, Ayshire, Ayrshire weaver, pub. The Retrospect or youthful scenes. With other Poems and Songs (Edinburgh, 1st edn 1830, 2nd edn 1833; begun in 1824 and inspired by an episode of unrequited love); The whole poetical work of John Wright (Ayr, 1843). Ref: ODNB/DNB; Edwards, 3, 121-30; Southey, xv; Wilson, II, 541-2. [S] Wright, Orlando, mechanic, of Birmingham and York, pub. A Wreath of leisure hours: poems, including an elegy on the Hartley Colliery catastrophe (Birmingham, 1862), Clifton Green: a poem, etc. (London, York and Scarbro, 1868), Maxims and epigrams (London, 1876). Ref: Reilly (2000), 510. Wright, William (‘Bill o’ th’ Hoylus End’, b. 1836), of Hermit Hole, Haworth, Yorkshire, musician’s son, warp-dresser, strolling player, soldier, ‘wanderer and conscious eccentirc’ (K.E. Smith in the England anthology), wrote ‘The Factory Girl’, pub. in his Poems (Keighley, rev. edn., 1891), also pub. Random rhymes and rambles, by Bill o’ th’ Hoylus End (Keighley, 1876). Ref: Forshaw, 180-3 (includes a full-plate etched portrait); Burnett et al (1984), 347-8 (no. 776); Maidment (1987), 272-4; Reilly (1994), 47 & 527; Reilly (2000), 510; England, 25, 43, 56. Wrigley, Ammon (1862-1946), of Saddleworth, millworker, dialect poet, pub. Saddleworth: Its Prehistoric Remains (Oldham D E Clegg 1911); Songs of a Moorland Parish with Prose Sketches. A Collection of Verse and Prose, Chiefly Relating to the Parish of Saddleworth (Saddleworth: Moore and Edwards, 1912), and other works, all apparently post-1900. Ref: Hollingworth (1977), 156; Burnett et al (1984), 349 (no. 780); England, 12, 67. [OP] Wynd, James (1832-65), of Dundee, painter, poem in Blackie’s book of Scottish song, died in Newcastle upon Tyne. Ref: Edwards, 1, 381-2. [S] Yates, Henry, of Blackburn, handloom weaver, son of a railwayman, living first at Summit then at Blackburn, dialect and local poet, pub. Songs of the Twilight and the Dawn. Ref: Hull, 221-37; inf. Bob Heyes. ? Yates, James (fl. 1578-1582), ‘serving man’, patronised and employed by Henry and Elizabeth Reynolds, pub. The Castell of Courtesie, [whereunto is adjoyned The holde of humilitie: with The chariot of chastity thereunto annexed] (London, 1582; 'entered on the Stationers' register on 7 June 1582. Three copies are known to survive' [ODNB]). Ref: ODNB; Cranbrook, 247. [OP] Yearsley, Ann Cromartie (1752-1806). Born in Clifton, a village in Gloucestershire. Known also as ‘Lactilla’ or ‘the Poetical Milkwoman of Bristol’, Yearsley followed her mother’s calling as a milk woman, and learnt to read and write under the guidance of her brother William Cromartie. In 1774, she married John Yearsley, a poor yeoman farmer, and devoted the subsequent ten years to developing her writing while fulfilling her onerous duties as a farmer’ wife and mother of six children. After battling destitution in the winter of 1783-84—her family salvaged from veritable starvation—Yearsley came to the attention of the affluent Hannah More and other members of the ’Bluestocking’ circle, who enabled Poems on Several Occasions to be published by subscription. A public wrangle over control and income bore a permanent rift in Yearsley’s relationship with her patron. Hereafter, Yearsley would produce her subsequent works independently. In the 1790s social upheavals in France exacerbated a silencing of the underclass in many quarters, and Yearsley’s main income in her later years came from a circulating library she opened in Bristol in 1793. She died in obscurity in Melksham, Wilts, and it was not until the final quarter of the twentieth century that Yearsley began to emerge from the shadows of literary history. Yearsley tackled various forms but demonstrated a particular proclivity for occasional, commemorative and meditative lyric poetry, abounding with personifications and figures of eighteenth-century verse, including classical allusion. Her work covers a wide range of concerns. The melancholy that accompanies Yearsley’s preoccupation with death is mitigated by her veneration of friendship (the ‘social angel’) and her celebration of motherhood (‘A mother only can define her joy’). In A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade, she exposes the false sensibility that the slave trade is grounded in, attacking the ‘crafty merchants’ defiling Bristol. Pub: Poems on Several Occasions, (London: Thomas Cadell, 1785), Poems on Various Subjects (1787), facsimile edition (Oxford and New York: Woodstock Books, 1994), A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade (London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1788, online at: http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/yearsley1.htm), The Rural Lyre: A Volume of Poems, 1796, reprinted in The Romantics: Women Poets, 12 vols, (London: Routledge, 1996). Yearsley also wrote a novel, The Royal Captives: A Fragment of Secret History (4 vols 1795), and a play, Earl Goodwin (pub. 1791). In addition to Tim Burke’s useful selection, Ann Yearsley: Selected Poems (Cyder Press, 2003), there is now a full scholarly library edition of her work, The Collected Works of Ann Yearsley, ed. Kerri Andrews, three vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014): Vol. 1 : Poetry and Letters; Vol. 2: Earl Goodwin; Vol. 3: The Royal Captives; see also Andrews’s monograph on Yearsley and More: Ann Yearsley and Hannah More: Patronage and Poetry (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), Gender and Genre series, no. 11. ~ Ref: LC 3, 57-102; ODNB/DNB; Southey, 125-34, 195-8; Tinker, 99-104, 6-10, 15-17, 20-1; Unwin, 68, 77-81; Radcliffe; Cafarelli, 79-81; Christmas, 18-19, 23, 235-66; Goodridge (1999), item 134Heinzelman, 101-24; Klaus (1985), 6-10, 15-17, 20-1; Landry (1990); Lonsdale (1989), 392-401: Milne (1999), 139-73; Richardson, 252-4; Rizzo; Rowton, 184-6; Sales (1994); Shiach, 45, 56-9; Keegan (2008), 77-80; Backscheider, 412; Backscheider & Ingrassia, 891-2; Kord, 270-1; Basker, 373-7; Sutton, 1031. [F] [LC 3] [—Iain Rowley] Yeats, William (fl. 1792), of Airdrie, flesher, born on a farm, pub. ‘Airdrie Fair’ in 1792, reprinted in Knox. Ref: Knox, 306-10. [S] Yewdall, John (1795-1856), ‘the Hunslet Toll-Keeper’, born in Quarries, Leeds, ‘received only three weeks’ formal education’ (ODNB). Pub. The Toll-Bar and Other Poems (Leeds, 1827), written in the style of Byron’s Don Juan, includes autobiographical account. Ref: ODNB; Johnson, item 999; Johnson 46, no. 340. Yool, James (1792-1860), of Paisley, weaver, active in founding Paisley Literary and Convivial Association, helped to publish ‘The Caledonian Lyre’ a magazine, in 1815, contributed to Harp R and later edited Paisley Literary Miscellany to which he contributed, pub. The Rise & Progress of Oppression, or the Weavers’ Struggle for their Prices, A Tale (Paisley, 1813), The Poems and Songs and Literary Recreations of James Yool, Collected and Collated for the Paisley Burns Club by William Stewart (Glasgow, 1883), his works were collected posthumously in manuscript. Ref: Brown, I, 257-64; Leonard, 63-73. [S] ? Young, D. (b. 1852), of Carmyllie, reporter, farmer, a collection in prospect in 1880. Ref: Edwards, 1, 99-100. [S] Young, David (1811-1891), of Kirkcaldy, ‘The Solitary Bard’, mechanic and millwright in a linen factory, journalist and poet, pub. in newspapers. Ref: Edwards, 15, 282-4. [S] Young, John (1825-91), of Milton of Campsie, Stirlingshire, moved to Glasgow, boilermaker, carter, disabled in an accident, 1853, lived in the poorhouse for six years, almost blind in later years; pub. Lays from the poorhouse: being a collection of temperance and miscellaneous pieces, chiefly Scottish (Glasgow, 1860 [but Murdoch gives 1859]); Lays from the ingle nook: a collection of tales, sketches, &c. (Glasgow, 1863); Homely pictures in verse, chiefly of a domestic nature (Glasgow, 1865); Poems and lyrics, chiefly in the Scottish dialect (Glasgow, 1868); Lochlomond side, and other poems (Glasgow, 1872); Pictures in prose and verse: or, personal recollections of the late Janet Hamilton [qv], Langloan: together with several hitherto unpublished poetic pieces (Glasgow, 1877); Selections from my first volume, Lays from the poorhouse: (published November 1860), with an appendix containing some hitherto unpublished poems (Glasgow, 1881). Ref: Edwards, 1, 276-81 and 16, [lix]; Glasgow Poets, 358-60; Reilly (2000), 514; Reilly (1994), 531, Murdoch, 184-8. [S] Young, John (b. 1827), of Paisley, drawboy and weaver, pub. poems in newspapers; a proposal to publish vol. is on record. Ref: Brown, II, 244-47. [S] Young, Robert (b. 1800), of Fintona, County Tyroe, nailer, granted a Civil List pension of £40 in 1866; pub. The Poetical Works of Robert Young of Londonderry: comprising historical, agricultural, and miscellaneous poems and songs, with copious notes (Londonderry, Derby and Dublin, 1863). Ref: Reilly (2000), 515. [I] Young, Robert, of Bothwell, Lanarkshire, working man; pub. Love at the Plough, and other poems (Biggar, ?1888). Ref: Reilly (1994), 531. [S] Younger, John (1785-1860), born at Ancrum, Roxburghshire, shoemaker, accomplished angler known as the ‘Tweedside Gnostic’; pub. Thoughts as They Rise (1834), River Angling for salmon and trout, more particularly as practised in the Tweed and its tributaries with a treatise on salmon (1840); The Scotch Corn Law Rhyme (1841); The Light of the Week (1849); Autobiography of John Younger, Shoemaker, of St. Boswell’s (Kelso, 1881). Ref: ODNB; LC 5, 75-82; Winks, 319-21; Burnett et al (1984), 350-1 (no. 783). [S] [LC 5] Yule, John T (b. 1848), of Milnathort, Kinrossshire, shoemaker, letter-carrier, pub. Mable Lee: A Sketch (Selkirk, 1885). 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