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* The Sarah Caudwell novel ''[[Hilary Tamar|The Sibyl in her Grave]]'' features a bank director with a very pronounced Lancashire accent, which is commented on numerous times by various people. Most of them talk about how remarkable it is he's risen to his prominent position what with the disadvantages he must have had. {{spoiler|The gentleman is actually very well educated with a First from Oxford and quite capable of speaking with a Southern accent, but found that other Englishmen were more inclined to trust him with the Northern accent. Then he kept it and started exaggerating it - and the "provincial Northerner" persona - to make fun of a snobbish coworker he particularly disliked, but no one ever realised it was a joke.}}

* In ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|Harry Potter]]'', Spinner's End is in the north, around 200 miles from London; the descriptions are evocative of old textile towns like Rochdale, Stockport, Brighouse, and Halifax. Which side of the Pennines it's on is a matter of debate, with equally convincing arguments. [http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essays/essay-spinners-end.html An essay] on the Harry Potter Lexicon by Claire M. Jordan states: "Of these locations, the Manchester/Salford area is probably the most likely. (In the [[Film of the Book|movies]] Snape speaks with a West London accent [because Alan Rickman is originally from Hammersmith] and therefore can't be used to prove or disprove this theory.)

** In the UK audio books, [[Stephen Fry]] gives Tonks a strong Yorkshire accent.

* ''[[Hard Times]]'' is set up north. This being [[Charles Dickens]] of course, an author who was about as Northern as Mick Jagger, it's believed he had to ''look up the dialect in a book'' to make sure he got the [[Funetik Aksent|Lancashire accent and slang right]]. Only the poor, uneducated people spoke this way though.