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BRIERLEY, BENJAMIN (1825–1896)

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BRIERLEY, See also:BENJAMIN (1825–1896) , See also:English See also:weaver and writer in See also:Lancashire See also:dialect, was See also:born near Manchesteg, the son of humble parents, and started See also:life in a textile factory, educating himself in his spare See also:time. At about the See also:age of See also:thirty he began to contribute articles to See also:local papers, and the republication of some of his sketches of Lancashire See also:character in A Summer See also:Day in See also:Daisy Nook (1859) attracted See also:attention. In 1863 he definitely took to journalism and literature as his See also:work, See also:publishing in 1863 his See also:Chronicles of Waverlow, and in 1864 a See also:long See also:story called The Layrock of See also:Langley See also:Side (afterwards dramatized), followed by others. He started in 1869 See also:Ben Brierley's See also:Journal, a weekly, which continued till 1891, and he gave public readings from his own writings, visiting See also:America in 188o and 1884. His various Ab-o'-lh'-Yate sketches (about America, See also:London, &c.), and his pictures of Lancashire See also:common life; were very popular, and were collected after his See also:death. In 1884 he lost his savings by the failure of a See also:building society, and a fund was raised for his support. He died on the 18th of See also:January 1896, and two years later a statue was erected to him in See also:Queen's See also:Park, See also:Manchester.

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