Agnes Wheeler

Her work was later used in Specimens of the Westmorland Dialect published by the Revd Thomas Clarke in 1887.

[2] She was born near Cartmel and went to London for 18 years where she married a Captain Wheeler and worked as a housekeeper.

She returned to Cumbria a widow where she wrote for the local press in plain English.

The conversations discuss a trip to London, the illness of George III, christenings, deaths, cockfights and other subjects including hairstyles and fashion.

[3] Wheeler died in Beetham where she had lived with her brother William in the medieval Arnside Tower.

The Westmorland Dialect, in three familiar Dialogues: in which an Attempt is made to illustrate the provincial Idiom.