The LIFE OF GEORGE BORROW

p. 3INTRODUCTION

p. 5CONTENTS

p. 7CHAPTER I Captain Borrow of the West Norfolk Militia

p. 14CHAPTER II Borrow’s Mother

p. 17CHAPTER III John Thomas Borrow

p. 25CHAPTER IV A Wandering Childhood

p. 36CHAPTER V The Gurneys and the Taylors of Norwich

p. 44CHAPTER VI At the Norwich Grammar School

p. 50CHAPTER VII In a Lawyer’s Office

p. 55CHAPTER VIII An Old-Time Publisher

p. 60CHAPTER IX “Faustus” and “Romantic Ballads”

p. 67CHAPTER X “Celebrated Trials” and John Thurtell

p. 74CHAPTER XI Borrow and The Fancy

p. 78CHAPTER XII Eight Years of Vagabondage

p. 81CHAPTER XIII Sir John Bowring

p. 90CHAPTER XIV Borrow and The Bible Society

p. 97CHAPTER XV St. Petersburg and John P. Hasfeld

p. 102CHAPTER XVI The Manchu Bible—“Targum”—“The Talisman”

p. 110CHAPTER XVII Three Visits to Spain

p. 130CHAPTER XVIII Borrow’s Spanish Circle

p. 140CHAPTER XIX Mary Borrow

p. 147CHAPTER XX “The Children of the Open Air”

p. 153CHAPTER XXI “The Bible in Spain”

p. 160CHAPTER XXII Richard Ford

p. 168CHAPTER XXIII In Eastern Europe

p. 183CHAPTER XXIV Lavengro

p. 191CHAPTER XXV A Visit to Cornish Kinsmen

p. 195CHAPTER XXVI In the Isle of Man

p. 199CHAPTER XXVII Oulton Broad and Yarmouth

p. 207CHAPTER XXVIII In Scotland and Ireland

p. 222CHAPTER XXIX “the romany rye”

p. 227CHAPTER XXX Edward Fitzgerald

p. 235CHAPTER XXXI “Wild Wales”

p. 244CHAPTER XXXII Life In London, 1860–1874

p. 250CHAPTER XXXIII Friends of Later Years

p. 255CHAPTER XXXIV Henrietta Clarke

p. 268CHAPTER XXXV The Aftermath

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