CONTENTS

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Introduction

3

I.

Captain Borrow of the West Norfolk Militia

7

II.

Borrow’s Mother

14

III.

John Thomas Borrow

17

IV.

A Wandering Childhood

25

V.

The Gurneys and the Taylors of Norwich

36

VI.

At the Norwich Grammar School

44

VII.

In a Lawyer’s Office

50

VIII.

An Old-time Publisher

55

IX.

“Faustus” and “Romantic Ballads”

60

X.

“Celebrated Trials” and John Thurtell

67

XI.

Borrow and the Fancy

74

XII.

Eight Years of Vagabondage

78

XIII.

Sir John Bowring

81

XIV.

Borrow and the Bible Society

90

XV.

St. Petersburg and John P. Hasfeld

97

XVI.

The Manchu Bible—“Targum”—“The Talisman”

102

XVII.

Three Visits to Spain

110

XVIII.

Borrow’s Spanish Circle

130

XIX.

Mary Borrow

140

XX.

“The Children of the Open Air”

147

XXI.

“The Bible in Spain”

153

XXII.

Richard Ford

160

XXIII.

In Eastern Europe

168

XXIV.

“Lavengro”

183

XXV.

A Visit to Cornish Kinsmen

191

XXVI.

In the Isle of Man

195

XXVII.

Oulton Broad and Yarmouth

199

XXVIII.

In Scotland and Ireland

207

XXIX.

“The Romany Rye”

222

XXX.

Edward Fitzgerald

227

XXXI.

“Wild Wales”

235

XXXII.

Life in London

244

XXXIII.

Friends of Later Years

250

XXXIV.

Henrietta Clarke

255

XXXV.

The Aftermath

268

Index

273

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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