1. Introduction: What is dialect writing? Where is the North of England? Patrick Honeybone & Warren Maguire 2. Black Country dialect literature and what it can tell us about Black Country dialect Esther Asprey 3. Dialect and the construction of identity in the ego-documents of Thomas Bewick Joan Beal 4. Nottingham: City of Literature. Dialect Literature and Literary Dialect Natalie Braber 5. Enregistering dialect representation in Staffordshire Potteries’ cartoons Urszula Clark 6. Russian dolls and dialect literature: the enregisterment of nineteenth century ‘Yorkshire’ dialects Paul Cooper 7. Representing the language of Liverpool; or, the (im)possibility of dialect writing Tony Crowley 8. Metaphor and Indexicality in The Pitman’s Pay: the ambivalence of dialect Rod Hermeston 9. ‘Did she say dinner, Betsey, at this taam o’day?’: representing Yorkshire voices and characters in novels 1800-1836 Jane Hodson 10. Which phonological features get represented in dialect writing? Answers and questions from three types of Liverpool English texts. Patrick Honeybone 11. Phonological analysis of early nineteenth century Tyneside Dialect Literature: Thomas Wilson’s The Pitman’s Pay Warren Maguire 12. The graphical representation of phonological dialect features of the North of England on social media Andrea Nini, George Bailey, Diansheng Guo and Jack Grieve 13. The Bolton/Worktown Corpus: a case of accidental dialectology? Ivor Timmis 14. Automatic analysis of dialect literature: advantages and challenges Kevin Watson & Marie Møller Jensen