Tipping Brown (1758-1811)
Dr Tipping Brown was a distinguished freemason and influential literary figure during a significant period of Sunderland's development.
Biography
Ann Wheeler from Arnside published her Westmoreland Dialogues in the 1790s, a period when the standard of correctness of language was a hot political issue. Her writing suggests that dialect-speakers like her were being ‘othered’ by fashionable visitors to the region whose picaresque tourism was little more than voyeurism. Consideration of Ann Wheeler’s life and writing allows for a contemporary understanding about what ‘local culture’ might have meant to a woman from Westmoreland writing in the late eighteenth-century.