Emily Bronte And The Haworth Dialect

PETYT, K M.

£20.00

Publisher

Yorkshire Dialect Society.

Place

[Keighley]

Date

1970

Synopsis

A study of the dialect speech in 'wuthering heights.' by k. m. petyt m.a.

Item Description

8vo. [4] + ii + 53 pp. In orange limp card wrapper, with Society device on front wrapper. A little wear to extremities, including creasing of top right hand corners and lightly sunned spine; otherwise a very good copy. A critical study of Emily Bronte's use of the local Haworth dialect in Wuthering Heights. The first publication of dialectologist, Keith Malcolm Petyt. Born in Bradford, he spent most of his academic career at the University of Reading.

[Stock No. 29254]

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