The Life of George Borrow

by Clement King Shorter

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Contents

1. Introduction
2. Chapter I. Captain Borrow of the West Norfolk Militia
3. Chapter II. Borrow’s Mother
4. Chapter III. John Thomas Borrow
5. Chapter IV. A Wandering Childhood
6. Chapter V. The Gurneys and the Taylors of Norwich
7. Chapter VI. At the Norwich Grammar School
8. Chapter VII. In a Lawyer’s Office
9. Chapter VIII. An Old-Time Publisher
10. Chapter IX. “Faustus” and “Romantic Ballads”
11. Chapter X. “Celebrated Trials” and John Thurtell
12. Chapter XI. Borrow and The Fancy
13. Chapter XII. Eight Years of Vagabondage
14. Chapter XIII. Sir John Bowring
15. Chapter XIV. Borrow and The Bible Society
16. Chapter XV. St. Petersburg and John P. Hasfeld
17. Chapter XVI. The Manchu Bible—“Targum”—“The Talisman”
18. Chapter XVII. Three Visits to Spain
19. Chapter XVIII. Borrow’s Spanish Circle
20. Chapter XIX. Mary Borrow
21. Chapter XX. “The Children of the Open Air”
22. Chapter XXI. “The Bible in Spain”
23. Chapter XXII. Richard Ford
24. Chapter XXIII. In Eastern Europe
25. Chapter XXIV. Lavengro
26. Chapter XXV. A Visit to Cornish Kinsmen
27. Chapter XXVI. In the Isle of Man
28. Chapter XXVII. Oulton Broad and Yarmouth
29. Chapter XXVIII. In Scotland and Ireland
30. Chapter XXIX. “the romany rye”
31. Chapter XXX. Edward Fitzgerald
32. Chapter XXXI. “Wild Wales”
33. Chapter XXXII. Life In London, 1860–1874
34. Chapter XXXIII. Friends of Later Years
35. Chapter XXXIV. Henrietta Clarke
36. Chapter XXXV. The Aftermath

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