John Hartley (1839-1915) was an English poet who worked in the Yorkshire dialect. He wrote a great deal of prose and poetry – often of a sentimental nature – dealing with the poverty of the district. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

Hartly wrote and edited the Original Illuminated Clock Almanack from 1866 to his death.

Most of Hartley’s works are written in dialect.

Hartley wrote a number of books featuring the character “Sammywell Grimes”, who has a number of adventures and suffers unfortunate mishaps.

Works

Yorkshire Ditties, First Series
Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series
Yorkshire Tales, First Series
Yorkshire Tales, Second Series
Yorkshire Tales, Third Series
Yorkshire Lyrics (1898)
Pensive Poems and Startling Stories
A Rolling Stone. A Tale of Wrongs and Revenge
Mally An’ Me: A selection of Humorous and Pathetic Incidents from the Life of Sammywell Grimes and His Wife Mally (1902)
Yorksher Puddin (1876)
A Sheaf from the Moorland– A Collection of Original Poems
Grimes’ Visit To Th’ Queen. A Royal Time Amang Royalties
Seets I’Lundun: A Yorkshireman’s Ten Days’ Trip
Seets i’ Yorkshire and Lancashire or Grimes’ Comical Trip from Leeds to Liverpool by Canal
Seets i’ Blackpool– Grimes at the Seaside
Seets i’ Paris– Sammywell Grimes’s trip with his old chum Billy Baccus; his opinion o’th’ French, and th’ French opinion o’th’ exhibition he made ov hissen.
Grimes’ Trip to America– Ten letters from Sammywell to John Jones Smith
Sammywell Grimes An’ his Wife Mally Laikin I’ Lakeland: A Humorous Account of their Visit to the Home of Famous Poets, &c., &c.

External links

Works by John Hartley at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about John Hartley at Internet Archive
Works by John Hartley at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Yorkshire Ditties by John Hartley– Link fails 25 October 2008– permissions
John Hartley at Old Poetry

References

Wikipedia—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hartley_(poet)