John Hartley (poet)

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John Hartley (1839-1915) was an English poet who worked in the Yorkshire dialect. He wrote a great deal of prose and poetry – often of a sentimental nature – dealing with the poverty of the district. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

Hartly wrote and edited the Original Illuminated Clock Almanack from 1866 to his death.

Most of Hartley's works are written in dialect.

Hartley wrote a number of books about the character "Sammywell Grimes" who has a number of adventures and suffers unfortunate mishaps.

Also by John Hartley:

Yorkshire Ditties, First Series

Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series

Yorkshire Tales, First Series

Yorkshire Tales, Second Series

Yorkshire Lyrics

Pensive Poems and Startling Stories

A Rolling Stone. A Tale of Wrongs and Revenge

Mally An' Me : A selection of Humorous and Pathetic Incidents from the Life of Sammywell grimes and His Wife Mally

Yorksher Puddin

A Sheaf from the Moorland - A Collection of Original Poems

Grimes' Visit To Th' Queen. A Royal Time Amang Royalties

Seets I'Lundun: A Yorkshireman's Ten Days' Trip

Seets i' Yorkshire and Lancashire or Grimes' Comical Trip from Leeds to Liverpool by Canal

Seets i' Blackpool - Grimes at the Seaside

Seets i’ Paris - Sammywell Grimes’s trip with his old chum Billy Baccus; his opinion o’th’ French, and th’ French opinion o’th’ exhibition he made ov hissen.

Grimes’ Trip to America - Ten letters from Sammywell to John Jones Smith

Sammywell Grimes An' his Wife Mally Laikin I' Lakeland: A Humourous Account of their Visit to the Home of Famous Poets, &c., &c.