Editing Stalybridge (section)

===Literature===
As well as being described by Engels, Stalybridge was featured in [[Benjamin Disraeli|Disraeli's]] [[Coningsby (novel)|''Coningsby'']]. The children's author [[Beatrix Potter]] visited Gorse Hall many times as a child as it was the home of her maternal grandmother.<ref name="Ref_aa">{{cite web | url= http://www.tameside.gov.uk/corpgen1/beatrixpotter.htm |title=A Tribute to Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) |publisher= Tameside MBC |access-date= 24 March 2006 |url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060427125502/http://www.tameside.gov.uk/corpgen1/beatrixpotter.htm |archive-date= 27 April 2006 |df= dmy-all }}</ref> Samuel Laycock (1826–93) was a librarian at the Mechanics' Institute for two years. His poetry presents a vivid impression of the mid-19th century, working-class life, and he drew on his personal experience in the cotton industry. His best-loved poems are "Bowton's Yard" and "Bonny Brid"&nbsp;– both written in Stalybridge. [[Tim Willocks]], author of ''Bad City Blues'', ''Green River Rising'' and ''Bloodstained Kings'' is from Stalybridge.<ref name="Ref_ab">{{cite web |url= http://www.twbooks.co.uk/crimedigests/digests98/arrowau98.html |title=Tim Willocks |work= TWbooks.co.uk |access-date=23 August 2006}}</ref><ref name="Ref_2006">{{cite news |url= http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article1211747.ece |title=Tim Willocks: Land of Pope and Glory |work=The Independent |date=4 August 2006 |place=London |access-date= 24 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070223102631/http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article1211747.ece |archive-date= 23 February 2007 }}</ref> Dolores Gordon-Smith, author of the ''Jack Haldean'' murder mystery series (published by Constable & Robinson and currently by Severn House) and ''Frankies' Letter'' (on Kindle) is from Stalybridge and currently resides there. [[M. John Harrison]] describes Stalybridge in his short story "The Ice Monkey" as a place "where nothing is clear-cut and there is neither town nor country, just a grim industrial muddle of the two".<ref>M. John Harrison, ''The Ice Monkey and Other Stories''. London: Victor Gollancz, 1983, p. 16.</ref>