Edward "Ned" Corvan (c. 1830 – 1865) was a Tyneside concert hall songwriter and performer, and a contemporary of George "Geordie" Ridley.[1] His songs were printed in a modified English orthography designed to represent the traditional dialect of Tyneside in the middle of the 19th century, and are examples of Dialect Literature.[2]
- ^ Allan, T. (1972) Tyneside Songs, ed. David Harker, pp. 387–94. Newcastle: Frank Graham (Orig. published 1862).
- ^ Wales, K. (2006) Northern English: a Social and Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Beal, J. (2002) "From Geordie Ridley to Viz: popular literature in Tyneside English". Language and Literature 9, 343-359.