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Title: East Anglia
Personal Recollections and Historical Associations

Author: J. Ewing Ritchie

Release Date: December 20, 2009 [eBook #30717]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed from the 1893 Jarrold & Sons edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

_PRESS NOTICES OF THE FIRST EDITION_.

'We cordially recommend Mr. Ritchie's book to all who wish to pass an
agreeable hour and to learn something of the outward actions and
inner life of their predecessors. It is full of sketches of East
Anglian celebrities, happily touched if lightly limned.'--_East
Anglian Daily Times_.

'A very entertaining and enjoyable book. Local gossip, a wide range
of reading and industrious research, have enabled the author to
enliven his pages with a wide diversity of subjects, specially
attractive to East Anglians, but also of much general
interest.'--_Daily Chronicle_.

'The work is written in a light gossipy style, and by reason both of
it and of the variety of persons introduced is interesting. To a
Suffolk or Norfolk man it is, of course, especially attractive. The
reader will go through these pages without being wearied by
application. They form a pleasant and entertaining contribution to
county literature, and "East Anglia" will, we should think, find its
way to many of the east country bookshelves.'--_Suffolk Chronicle_.

'The book is as readable and attractive a volume of local chronicles
as could be desired. Though all of our readers may not see "eye to
eye" with Mr. Ritchie, in regard to political and theological
questions, they cannot fail to gain much enjoyment from his excellent
delineation of old days in East Anglia.'--_Norwich Mercury_.

'"East Anglia" has the merit of not being a compilation, which is
more than can be said of the great majority of books produced in
these days to satisfy the revived taste for topographical gossip.
Mr. Ritchie is a Suffolk man--