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Title: George Borrow in East Anglia

Author: William A. Dutt

Release Date: January 21, 2009 [eBook #27865]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GEORGE BORROW IN EAST ANGLIA***

Transcribed from the 1896 David Nutt edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

NOTE

_A few passages in this monograph are taken from a short article on_
"_George Borrow_" _which appeared in_ "_Good Words_."

_W. A. D._

GEORGE BORROW IN
EAST ANGLIA

BY
WILLIAM A. DUTT

"The foregoing generations beheld God and Nature face to face; we,
through their eyes. Why should we not also enjoy an original
relation to the universe? . . . The sun shines to-day also. There is
more wool and flax in the fields. Let us demand our own works, and
laws, and worship."--EMERSON.

LONDON
DAVID NUTT, 270-271, STRAND
1896

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I. EAST ANGLIA 7
II. EARLY DAYS 12
III. THE LAWYER'S CLERK 19
IV. DAYS IN NORWICH 29
V. LIFE AT OULTON 39
VI. BORROW AND PUGILISM 60
VII. BORROW AND THE EAST ANGLIAN GIPSIES 68

"_Apart from Borrow's undoubted genius as a writer_, _the
subject-matter of his writings has an interest that will not wane_,
_but will go on growing_. _The more the features of our_ '_Beautiful
England_,' _to use his own phrase_, _are changed by the multitudinous
effects of the railway system_, _the more attraction will readers
find in books which depict her before her beauty was marred_