George Markham Tweddell
Personal Information
Description
Stokesley (North Yorkshire) - Printer / Publisher / Poet / Author / Chartist / Oddfellow / Freemason / People's Historian and more. His wife was poet Elizabeth Tweddell aka Florence Cleveland whose Rhyemes and Sketches in a Cleveland Dialect is still popular. More details on the Tweddell History site
Books
The bards and authors of Cleveland and South Durham and the vicinage
Tweddell describes the work as kind of 'Cyclopedia' of Poets and Prose writers from Cleveland and South Durham from Caedmon's time up until the 1860's often with woodcuts of the authors and others by Bewick. Contains extracts from their writings along with Tweddell's commentary on their work and lives. Tweddell challanges a few ideas such as the birth place / residence of John Gower (the Moral) which he claims was in Stittenham and Sexhow (Nr Stokesley) rather than Cantebury or elsewhere. An online pdf version can be found here - (May take a while to load as big file)