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Dialect literature, Scottish

Here are entered collections of literary works written in dialects of the Scots language.

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• Ratis Raving, and Other Moral and Religious Pieces, ed. by J. Rawson Lumby (HTML at Michigan)

• Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song: With Historical and Traditional Notices Relative to the Manners and Customs of the Peasantry (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1910), by R. H. Cromek and Allan Cunningham, contrib. by William Gillespie (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• The Scottish Annual (only volume; Glasgow: J. Reid and Co.; et al., 1836), ed. by William Weir (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scottish Poetry of the Eighteenth Century (2 volumes; Glasgow: W. Hodge and Co., 1896), ed. by George Eyre-Todd
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Kenneth McNeil (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Literature of the Highlanders: A History of Gaelic Literature From the Earliest Times to the Present Day (Inverness: J. Noble, 1892), by Nigel MacNeill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Celtic Review (full serial archives)

• Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song: With Historical and Traditional Notices Relative to the Manners and Customs of the Peasantry (London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1910), by R. H. Cromek and Allan Cunningham, contrib. by William Gillespie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A List of Books Printed in Scotland Before 1700, Including Those Printed Furth of the Realm for Scottish Booksellers; With Brief Notes on the Printers and Stationers (Edinburgh: Printed for the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 1904), by Harry Gidney Aldis
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Early Scottish Poetry: Thomas the Rhymer; John Barbour; Androw of Wyntoun; Henry the Minstrel (from the Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets; London and Edinburgh: Sands and Co., ca. 1891), ed. by George Eyre-Todd, contrib. by Thomas the Rhymer, John Barbour, Androw of Wyntoun, and Blind Hary (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mediaeval Scottish Poetry: King James the First; Robert Henryson; William Dunbar; Gavin Douglas (from the Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets; Glasgow: W. Hodge and Co., 1892), ed. by George Eyre-Todd, contrib. by King of Scotland James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gawin Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scottish Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Sir Robert Aytoun; Sir David Murray; Sir Robert Ker; Sir William Alexander; William Drummond; The Marquis of Montrose; The Semples of Beltrees (from the Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets; Glasgow: W. Hodge and Co., 1895), ed. by George Eyre-Todd, contrib. by Robert Ayton, David Murray, Robert Ker, William Alexander Stirling, William Drummond, James Graham Montrose, James Sempill, Robert Sempill, and Francis Sempill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scottish Poetry of the Sixteenth Century: Sir David Lyndsay; John Bellenden; King James the Fifth; Sir Richard Maitland; Alexander Scot; Alexander Montgomerie (from the Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets; Glasgow: W. Hodge and Co., 1892), ed. by George Eyre-Todd, contrib. by David Lindsay, John Bellenden, King of Scotland James V, Richard Maitland, Alexander Scott, and Alexander Montgomerie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian, by Robert Henryson, contrib. by Aesop (HTML at Michigan)

• The Attempt: A Literary Magazine (Leith, Scotland: Edinburgh Essay Society, Reid and Son, 1865-1974) (full serial archives)
• The Ladies' Edinburgh Magazine (1875-1880) (full serial archives)

• Typographia Scoto-Gadelica: or, Books Printed in the Gaelic of Scotland From the Year 1567 to the Year 1914; With Bibliographical And Biographical Notes (Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1915), by Donald Maclean
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Popular Tales of the West Highlands (second edition, 1890; some Gaelic sections omitted), by J. F. Campbell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Celtic Dragon Myth (Edinburgh: J. G. Grant, 1911), by J. F. Campbell, contrib. by George Henderson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• The Dean of Lismore's Book: A Selection of Ancient Gaelic Poetry (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1862), trans. by Thomas Maclauchlan, contrib. by W. F. Skene (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Carmina Gadelica (2 volumes published in the editor's lifetime (later posthumous volumes not included)), ed. by Alexander Carmichael
  • Volume I: HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Volume II: HTML at sacred-texts.com

• Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English, Collected From Oral Tradition (Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1910), by J. MacDougall, ed. by George Calder
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Dean of Lismore's Book: A Selection of Ancient Gaelic Poetry (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1862), trans. by Thomas Maclauchlan, contrib. by W. F. Skene (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Weird Tales: Scottish (London and Edinburgh: W. Paterson, n.d.), contrib. by Thomas Dick Lauder, Walter Scott, John Wilson, Hugh Miller, Allan Cunningham, John Mackay Wilson, and W. Grant Stewart (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gaelic Ghosts (New York et al: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1963), by Sorche Nic Leodhas, illust. by Nonny Hogrogian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weird Tales: Scottish (London and Edinburgh: W. Paterson, n.d.), contrib. by Thomas Dick Lauder, Walter Scott, John Wilson, Hugh Miller, Allan Cunningham, John Mackay Wilson, and W. Grant Stewart (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Shiela Crerar, Psychic Detective: Stories From "The Blue Magazine" (originally published 1920), by Ella Scrymsour (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Weird Tales: Scottish (London and Edinburgh: W. Paterson, n.d.), contrib. by Thomas Dick Lauder, Walter Scott, John Wilson, Hugh Miller, Allan Cunningham, John Mackay Wilson, and W. Grant Stewart (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Bards of Bon-Accord, 1375-1860 (Aberdeen: J. and J. P. Edmond and Spark, 1887), by William Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Child's Garden of Verses (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by Jessie Willcox Smith (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Child's Garden of Verses (Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1928), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by E. Mars and Maud Hunt Squire (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • HTML at kellscraft.com
  • Gutenberg text and audio
• A Child's Garden of Verses (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: John Lane, 1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by Charles Robinson
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at LOC
• A Child's Garden of Verses (Chicago et al.: Rand McNally and Co., 1903), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by E. Mars and Maud Hunt Squire (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• A Child's Garden of Verses (New York: Dodge Pub. Co., 1908), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by Bessie Pease Gutmann (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Child's Garden of Verses (Philadelphia: D. McKay, ca. 1908), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by Millicent Sowerby (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• A Child's Garden of Verses (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co, c1916), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by Myrtle Sheldon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Child's Garden of Verses (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1919), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by Maria Louise Kirk (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Child's Garden of Verses, and Underwoods; With Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, by Robert Louis Stevenson, contrib. by Alexander Harvey (HTML at Bartleby)

• An Elephant's Track, and Other Stories, by M. E. M. Davis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Bayou Folk, by Kate Chopin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Colonel Carter of Cartersville, by Francis Hopkinson Smith
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• Dialect Tales, by Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• In Simpkinsville: Character Tales, by Ruth McEnery Stuart (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Durket Sperrett (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1898), by Sarah Barnwell Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c., in the First Half Century of the Republic (second edition; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1850), by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c., in the First Half Century of the Republic (second edition; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1858), by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches, by Joel Chandler Harris (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Northern Georgia Sketches, by Will N. Harben (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Night in Acadie, by Kate Chopin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Grandisimmes: A Story of Creole Life (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880), by George Washington Cable (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Grandissimes (1899 edition), by George Washington Cable, illust. by Albert Herter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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