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• Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and Traditional Poems, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text)

• Songs of the Ridings, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text and HTML)

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• The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013-2017), by William Barnes, ed. by T. L. Burton
  • Volume 1 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, First Collection, 1844): PDF and audio files at Adelaide
  • Volume 2 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Second Collection, 1859): PDF and audio files with commentary at Adelaide
  • Volume 3 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Third Collection, 1862): PDF and audio files with commentary at Adelaide
• Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1903), by William Barnes (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Barrel Organ, by Edwin Waugh (Gutenberg text)
• Bits o' Broad Lancashire: Poems in the Dialect (ca. 1888), by William Baron (HTML in the UK)
• Dialect of South Lancashire: or, Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary, Revised and Corrected, With His Rhymes, and an Enlarged and Amended Glossary of Words and Phrases Chiefly Used by the Rural Population of the Manufacturing Districts of South Lancaster (1850), by Tim Bobbin, ed. by Samuel Bamford (HTML in the UK)
• Lancashire Songs (1865), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)
• Lancashire Songs (sheet music edition from Hime and Addison), by Edwin Waugh (PDF files in the UK)
• Poems and Songs (Manchester, UK: John Heywood, 1883), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)
• Poems and Songs (Second Series) (Liverpool: G. Walmsley; Oldham: W. E. Clegg, 1889), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)

• A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (second edition; London: J. C. Hotten, 1860), by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)

• On Early English Pronunciation, With Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer (5 volumes (Early English Text Society Extra Series 2, 7, 14, 23, and 56); 1869-1889), ed. by Alexander John Ellis
  • Part I (On the Pronunciation of the XIVth, XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part II (On the Pronunciation of the XIIIth and Previous Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part III (Illustrations of the Pronunciation of the XIVth and XVIth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part IV (Illustrations of the Pronunciation of English in the XVIIth, XVIIIth, and XIXth Centuries): multiple formats at Google
  • Part V (Existing Dialectal As Compared With West Saxon Pronunciation): multiple formats at Google

• The Dialect of the West of England, Particularly Somersetshire: With a Glossary of Words Now in Use There; Also With Poems and Other Pieces Exemplifying the Dialect (second edition; London: John Russell Smith, 1869), by James Jennings
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images and uncorrected text in Czech Republic

• The King and Queenes Entertainement at Richmond (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Early English Alliterative Poems, in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century (EETS #1, second edition; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1869, reprinted 1965), ed. by Richard Morris (Gutenberg text)

• The Victoria History of the County of York (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907-1913), ed. by William Page (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (partial serial archives)

• Yorkshire, by Gordon Home (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Yorkshire Coast and Moorland Scenes (second edition, 1907), by Gordon Home (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Scarborough and Neighbourhood (New York: Dodge Pub. Co., n.d.), by Murray Gilchrist, illust. by E. W. Haslehust (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mary Anerley, by R. D. Blackmore (Gutenberg text)
• Shirley, by Charlotte Brontë
  • HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Shirley (New York: Harper and Bros., n.d.), by Charlotte Brontë (page images at MOA)
• Shirley (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1899), by Charlotte Brontë, contrib. by Mrs. Humphry Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
  • HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net
  • HTML at Bibliomania
  • Gutenberg text

• Bygone Yorkshire (Hull and York: A. Brown and Sons; et al., 1892), ed. by William Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Victoria History of the County of York (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907-1913), ed. by William Page (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A History of the County of York: The City of York, ed. by P. M. Tillott (HTML at British History Online)
• The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists, and Plug-Drawers (third edition; Brighouse, UK: J. Hartley, 1895), by Frank Peel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists and Plugdrawers (second edition; Heckmondwike, UK: Senior and Co., 1888), by Frank Peel
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (partial serial archives)

• The Secret Garden (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at LOC

• Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events (fifth edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1900), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Songs of the Ridings, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text and HTML)
• Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and Traditional Poems, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text)

• Reminiscences of a Country Journalist (London: Ward and Downey, 1886), by Thomas Frost
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Songs of the Ridings, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text and HTML)
• Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and Traditional Poems, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text)

• Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events (fifth edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1900), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Victoria History of the County of York (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907-1913), ed. by William Page (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mother Shipton Investigated: The Result of Critical Examination in the British Museum Library, of the Literature Relating to the Yorkshire Sibyl (London: W. H. Harrison, 1881), by William H. Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life, Prophecies and Death of the Famous Mother Shipton (Acton: J. Wainwright, ca. 1870), contrib. by Charles Hindley and Mother Shipton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mother Shipton Investigated: The Result of Critical Examination in the British Museum Library, of the Literature Relating to the Yorkshire Sibyl (London: W. H. Harrison, 1881), by William H. Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Yorkshire Lay Subsidy, Being a Fifteenth Collected in 30 Edward I. (1301) (1897), by Great Britain Exchequer, ed. by William Brown (page images at HathiTrust)