Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect by John Collier and others. Read by Phil Benson. A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of 19th century texts on Collier and his work. Egged on by Meary (Mary), Tummus (Thomas) recounts the series of misadventures that ensue when he makes a trip to Rochdale on an errand for his master. First published in 1746, the text grew over subsequent editions as Collier expanded the story, added a preface in which he berates publishers who had pirated his work, and inflated and amended his glossary. The text read here is the final version of the preface, dialogue and glossary, which appeared in an 1862 edition of Colliers works. Collier's texts are followed by several accounts of Collier's life and commentaries on his work, Elijah Riding's 1860 'plain English' translation of the Tummus and Meary text, and three poems set at Collier's graveside in Rochdale. (Summary by Phil Benson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 10:21:01

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• fiction
• Lancashire
• dialect
• biography
• memoirs

Track guide

1. 01 - A view of the Lancashire dialect - Part 1 — 17:49
2. 02 - A view of the Lancashire dialect - Part 2 — 38:28
3. 03 - A view of the Lancashire dialect - Part 3 — 42:43
4. 04 - A glossary of Lancashire words and phrases A-E — 31:11
5. 05 - A glossary of Lancashire words and phrases F-J — 28:51
6. 06 - A glossary of Lancashire words and phrases K-R — 33:33
7. 07 - A glossary of Lancashire words and phrases S-Z — 46:22
8. 08 - Memoirs of John Collier — 45:18
9. 09 - Life of the author — 19:14
10. 10 - Introduction: Dialect of South Lancashire — 28:40
11. 11 - The cottage of Tim Bobbin and the village of Milnrow (extract) — 24:47
12. 12 - On the south Lancashire dialect (extract). Part 1 — 47:09
13. 13 - On the south Lancashire dialect (extract). Part 2 — 37:07
14. 14 - John Collier ('Tim Bobbin') — 33:32
15. 15 - Tim Bobbin as an artist — 6:21
16. 16 - The children of Tim Bobbin — 22:06
17. 17 - The dialogue of Thomas and Mary, rendered into simple English, Part 1 — 35:45
18. 18 - The dialogue of Thomas and Mary, rendered into simple English, Part 2 — 40:30
19. 19 - The dialogue of Thomas and Mary, rendered into simple English, Part 3 (footnotes) — 26:30
20. 20 - Tim Bobbin' grave, The ghost of Tim Bobbin, At the grave of Tim Bobbin — 15:15

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