…a city in NW England, the administrative centre of Lancashire, on the River Ribble; population 165,600 (est. 2009). It was the site in the 18th century of the first English cotton mills…
…(1903–87), American novelist and short-story writer; full name Erskine Preston Caldwell. Caldwell reproduced the dialect of the poor whites in his realistic, earthy, and popular novels, such as Tobacco Road (1932)…
