Verses Composed by Nanny Foulds, or Great Harwood, Near Blackburn, on the Death of a Young Woman, Named Hannah Corbridge, who, being pregnant, was murdered by her Sweetheart: after promising to take her to Scotland and marry her, he desperately cut her throat, and buried her in a ditch at Barnside, near Colne, the place of their residence. He was convicted of the Crime, and executed at Lancaster.

Author: NANNY FOULDS
Title: Verses Composed by Nanny Foulds, or Great Harwood, Near Blackburn, on the Death of a Young Woman, Named Hannah Corbridge, who, being pregnant, was murdered by her Sweetheart: after promising to take her to Scotland and marry her, he desperately cut her throat, and buried her in a ditch at Barnside, near Colne, the place of their residence. He was convicted of the Crime, and executed at Lancaster.
Description: [Liverpool]: W. Forshaw, printer, c. 1825. Single sheet, 225 x 135 mm. central horizontal crease. Hannah Corbridge was murdered by Christopher Hartley in 1789> the case achieving great notoriety at the time, perhaps accounting for this poem almost 40 years later. Nanny [Anne] Foulds was a female country poet, probably from Lancashire, whose ballads were printed by a variety of printers in Yorkshire and Lancashire. 8 other ballads are recorded on the Library Hub, this one unrecorded. It is unusual for the authorship of street ballads to be acknowledged, even rarer for women authors.

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