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BRIERLEY, BENJAMIN (18251896)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 563 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRIERLEY, BENJAMIN (18251896) ,
English
  weaver and writer in Lancashire dialect, was born near Manchesteg, the son of humble parents, and started
life
  in a textile factory, educating himself in his spare time. At about the age of thirty he began to contribute articles to local papers, and the republication of some of his sketches of Lancashire
character
  in A Summer Day in
Daisy
  Nook (1859) attracted attention. In 1863 he definitely took to journalism and literature as his
work
 , publishing in 1863 his Chronicles of Waverlow, and in 1864 a
long
  story called The Layrock of
Langley
  Side (afterwards dramatized), followed by others. He started in 1869 Ben Brierley's
Journal
 , a weekly, which continued till 1891, and he gave public readings from his own writings, visiting America in 188o and 1884. His various Ab-o'-lh'-Yate sketches (about America, London, &c.), and his pictures of Lancashire common
life
 ; were very popular, and were collected after his death. In 1884 he lost his savings by the failure of a building society, and a fund was raised for his support. He died on the 18th of January 1896, and two years later a statue was erected to him in Queen's Park,
Manchester
 .


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