INDEX

A

“Aager and Eliza,” 331, 334

Abraham, John, of Liskeard, 152

Academy, The, 251

Addington, Lord, Ford’s letters to, 113, 125, 346 (note)

Ainsworth, Harrison, 342

Ale, Borrow’s fondness for, 20, 235, 244, 259, 309, 345

Altarnun, Cornwall, 194

Anglo-Saxonism, Borrow’s, 17, 18, 313

Anstis, Bernard, 149, 152

Arabic, Borrow’s knowledge of, 83

“Army of Faith,” 72

Arnold, Matthew, 287 et seq., 305, 336 (note)

Arthurian Legend, The, 161, 162, 189, 195 et seq., 204 et seq.

Athenæum, The, 8, 117, 130, 133, 252, 253 (note)

Avery (or Every), John, 175

B

Bailly, Juan Antonio, 99 (note), 110, 111

Belfast, Borrow at, 237

Belgians, Borrow on, 82, 83

Benson, A. C, 255, 256

Berkeley, Rev., Vicar of St. Cleer, 152 et seq.

Berners, Isopel, 7, 10, 55 et seq., 291, 304, 308, 342

Bevan, Mrs., 139

“Bible in Spain, The,” 11, 12, 22, 75 (note), 114 et seq., 207, 271, 293 et seq., 338

Bible Society, The, 85 et seq., 98, 99, 104, 114, 115, 296

Birrell, A., 22, 65

Blackwood, 133

Blyth, Esther (“Queen of the Nokkums”), 237, 244, 284 et seq.

Boconnoc Pillar, The, 179 (note)

Bolventor, Cornwall, 193

Borde, Andrew, 267

Borlase, William, 180

Borrow, George, his birth, 25; at Huddersfield school, 27; at Edinburgh High School, 28; at Norwich Grammar School, 29, 30; at Clonmel School, 29; articled to solicitors, 35; and Sir John Bowring, 40, 73, 132; starts for London, 45; his literary-life in London, 46–54; his wanderings in England, 54–69; in Paris in 1826, 70; his imprisonments, 72, 93; applies for work at British Museum, 80; seeks post under Belgian Government, 82; employed by Bible Society, 86; at St. Petersburg, 88; returns to London, 90; visits Portugal and Spain, 91–103; his marriage, 104; separates from Bible Society, 104; at Oulton, 105–124, 125, 132, 137, 252, 258–262; takes prolonged tour abroad, 124; in the East, 131; his view of “Lavengro,” 135; and Dr. Hake, 138; at Yarmouth, 145, 224; his prowess as a swimmer, 146; visits Cornwall, 147–199; returns to London, 199; tours in Wales, 208–215, 227; visits Isle of Man, 216; tours in the Highlands, 230; visits Ireland, 230, 237; takes up residence in London, 232; tramps in Lowlands and Border Country, 237; death of his wife, 238; and Mr. Watts-Dunton, 246, 253; and Edward FitzGerald, 254; his last days in Norwich, 258; his death, 262

Borrow, Captain Thomas, 2, 22 et seq., 121, 147, 176, 192; marriage of, 25; death of, 45

—, John, 2, 25, 50; death of, 90

—, Mrs. Geo., 104, 106 et seq. 116, 120, 133, 145, 177, 208, 215; illness and death of, 238 et seq. (see also Clarke, Mrs.)

—, Mrs. Thomas, 2, 24, 25, 66, 67, 145; death of, 229

Borrows, The Cornish, 147 et seq., 190 et seq.

Bosvil (Bosvile), Gypsy tribe, 55

—, Ryley, 244, 275, 287

Bowring, Sir John, 40, 41, 70, 73 et seq., 91, 129, 132, 133, 136, 234, 313, 332, 346

—, L. B. and F. H., 73 (note)

—, Edgar, 84

Brandram, J., Secretary of Bible Society, 94, 99, 104, 300

British Museum (see Museum)

Brontë, Emily, 249

Brook, Sir James, 31

Brown Willy, Cornwall, 194

Bryan, B. (“Ben Brain”), 24, 33, 121

Buddhist Doctrines, Borrow on, 90

Burney, of Mousehole, 177 et seq.

Bury Post, The, 146

Byron, 6, 15, 16, 293

C

Camelford, Cornwall, 195

Campbell, Thomas, 44

“Canting Nonsense,” 34, 318

Caradon Hills, The, Cornwall, 146, 151 et seq., 202

Carew, Bampfylde Moore, 247

Carlism, Borrow on, 301

Carlyle, Thomas, 305, 313

Carn Brea, Cornwall, 180

“Celebrated Trials,” 49, 50, 52, 341

Celtic strain in Borrow, 17, 19, 20, 150, 202, 210, 320

Chandler, F. W., 341

Children’s Bill, The, 268 (note)

Christian, John William (“Shan Dhu”), 217, 218

Clarendon, Lord, 123, 124

Clarke, Miss Henrietta, 97, 137; in Wales, 208 et seq., marriage of, 236 (see also MacOubrey, Mrs.)

Clarke, Mrs. (Mrs. George Borrow), 85, 96, 97 et seq.; marriage with Borrow, 104 (see also Borrow, Mrs. George)

Clausel, and Bedouin campaign, 79, 83

Clonmel, Borrow at school in, 29

Cobbe, Frances Power, 232, 238, 239, 240

Coldstream Guards, Thomas Borrow enlists in, 23, 24

Coloma, Santa, the Carlist, 93

Cooper, Mrs. (gypsy celebrity), 286

Cordova, General, 103

Cork, Borrow at, 29

Cornhill Magazine, The, 235

Cornish language, 174, 186 et seq., 203

Cornwall, Borrow, family in, 17, 18, 21; Borrow’s visit to, 146 et seq.; Borrow leaves, 199; suggested book on, 199 et seq.; gypsies in, 278

Crofton, H. T., 267 (note)

Cronan, the guide, 185

“Croppies, lie down!” 213

Cruikshank, and Elis Wyn, 229

Cunningham, Allan, 69, 332

—, Rev. F., 85, 90

D

“Death Raven, The” 333

Defoe, Borrow’s exemplar, 13, 14, 26, 134, 297, 303, 343

Delabole, Cornwall, 199

Denew, of Yarmouth, 231

“Denmark, Songs of,” 75

Denniss, Vicar of Oulton, 120 (note)

Dereham, East, 14, 24; Borrow born at, 25

D’Éterville, Abbé, 31, 33, 35

Dickens, Charles, Borrow and, 240, 285, 305, 342

Dilke, Sir Charles, reviews “Lavengro,” 133

Doniert, King of Cornwall, 178, 193

Donne, W. B., 134, 139, 255, 256

Dowden, Professor, 37, 38

Dozmary Pool, 161 et seq.

Druids, Borrow and the, 179

Dublin, Borrow in, 230

Dutt, W. A., of Lowestoft, 260

E

East Anglia, Borrow and, 18, 222, 250, 343

Eastern Daily Press, The, 146 (note)

Edey, Mrs., of Liskeard, 168, 169

Edinburgh, Borrow in, 27

Edinburgh Review, The, 117

Edwards, Francis, 330

“Egipt speche,” Borde’s, 267

Elwin, Rev. Whitwell, 52, 141, 142, 226, 304

Every (or Avery), John, 175

Every, Miss, 175, 176 (note)

Examiner, The, 75 (note), 117

F

Faa, Will (Gypsy “King”), 283

“Faustus,” Klinger’s, Borrow translates, 44, 52, 69

Finn, Legends of, 185, 218 et seq.

FitzGerald, Edward, 107, 254 et seq.; his letter to Borrow, 257

Ford, Richard, 68, 72 (note), 112 et seq., 116, 117, 118, 123, 125, 126, 129, 340, 346

Ford, Mrs., 113 (note), 126 (note)

Foreign Quarterly, The, 78, 82

Fraser’s Magazine, 133, 234

G

Gaelic language (see Shelta)

Gayangos, Librarian of the “Nacional,” 99

“Gentility Nonsense,” 20, 151, 152, 314 et seq.

German, Borrow’s knowledge of, 49; literature, 313

Ghost story, Lope de Vega’s, 214

Gifford, William, 48

“Gil Blas,” 118, 294

Gladstone, W. E., and “The Bible in Spain,” 128

Globe, The, 245

Grampound, Borrow at, 179

Graydon, Lieutenant, 93, 94, 115

Groome, Hindes, 251

Grundtvig, Danish poet, 78

“Guinevere,” Borrow’s suggestion, 157

Gumb, Daniel, 159

Gurney, Joseph, 35, 85

—, Anna, 225

Guter Vawr, 214

Gwinett, Ambrose, 248

Gypsies, Borrow and, 1–4, 17, 295, 303, 314, 342, 343; Spanish, 92, 99, 110; in London, 127, 233; songs and stories of, 151; in Cornwall, 181; in Wales, 211; and C. G. Leland, 241 et seq.; and Watts-Dunton, 248 et seq.; their language, 251, 264–292, 342, 343

“Gypsies of Spain, The” (see “Zincali”)

Gypsy Lore Society, 265 (note), 267 (note)

H

Haggart, David, 28, 341

Hake, Dr. Gordon, 8, 109 (note), 134, 137, 138 et seq., 145, 156, 169, 246, 249 (note), 253

—, Mr. Egmont, 8

—, Mr. Thomas, 143

Hambly, Edmund, 19, 22

“Handbook for Spain,” Ford’s, 126 (note), 128, 129

Harford Bridge, 33

Harvey, Miss Elizabeth, 108, 109, 116, 137, 146 (note), 344 et seq.

Hasfeldt, 88, 89, 117, 119, 124

Hawker of Morwenstow, 191, 205; on Methodists, 221

Haydon, Benjamin, 50, 51, 70

Hayim Ben Attar, 103

Hayle, Borrow at, 182

Hazlitt, William, 310

“Herne, Mrs.” 35, 270

Highland Society of London, The, 80

Homer, and Gronwy Owen, 240, 241, 272

Horncastle Fair, 66, 69, 70

“Horrors, The,” 51, 90, 155, 238, 239, 344

Huddersfield, Borrow at school in, 27, 28

Huguenots, Mrs. Thomas Borrow’s descent from, 19, 24

Hume, Martin, 301

Hurlers, The, 160

I

Imprisonments, Borrow’s, 72, 93

“Ingeborg, Queen,” 10, 57

Ireland, Borrow’s love for, 19; first visit to, 29; suggested service in, 83, 153; tour in, 230

J

Jago, James, of Liskeard, 149, 194

Jenner, Henry, 187

Jessopp, Dr., 33; on Borrow and children, 142

“Jew of Fez, The,” 103

John, S. R., 187 (note)

Johnson, the Pugilist, 24

“Jones, John,” of Llangollen, 212

“Joseph Sell,” 53, 54

K

Kerrison, Roger, 35, 45, 51

Killey (Manx poet), 221

Kingsley, Charles, 305

King’s Lynn, 225

Kirk Yetholm, 237, 244, 248 (note), 251, 283 et seq.

“Kjaempe Viser,” The, 69, 76

Klinger (see “Faustus”)

Knapp, Professor W. I., LL.D., 32, 45, 51, 72, 97, 127 (note), 129, 154, 185, 211, 213, 240 (note), 262 (note)

L

Languages, Borrow’s capacity for, 1, 30, 31

Latham, Dr., 252, 253

“Lavengro,” 4, 12, 22, 24, 26, 29, 46, 47, 53, 54 et seq., 73, 76, 121 et seq., 125, 130, 151, 199, 244, 266, 293 et seq., 302 et seq., 339; publication of, 131; reviews of, 133, 226; Borrow’s view of, 135; fascination exercised by, 303

“— Portrait,” The, 337

Leland, C. G., 232, 241 et seq., 265, 284, 309

Le Sage, Borrow compared with, 12, 118, 294

Lipotsof, translator, 87

Liskeard, Cornwall, 21, 23; Borrow at, 147 et seq.

Lockhart, J. G., 52, 76, 128, 129, 142

Lockyer, Sir Norman, 160

Logan Rock, The, 184

London, Borrow family in, 231

Longstone, The, 161

Lopez, Antonio, 92, 281 et seq.

Lostwithiel, Borrow at, 178

M

Macaulay, Lord, 305

Mackay, William, of Oulton, 244 et seq., 249 (note), 260

MacOubrey, Dr., 236, 237, 258, 262

—, Mrs., 236, 237, 258, 262 (see also Clarke, Miss H.)

MacRitchie, D., 280 (note)

Malory’s Arthurian Legend, 162

Man, Isle of, Borrow’s visit to, 216 et seq.

Manchu, The Scriptures in, 86 et seq.

Manx language, Borrow and the, 217

Martineau family, The, 25, 90, 157

—, Harriett, 38, 86

—, James, 31, 32

Mendizabal, Prime Minister of Spain, 300

Menheniot Pair, 23, 24, 147, 203

Meredith, George, 234

“Merman, The Deceived,” 335

Metaphysics, Phillips’s, 49

Methodists, in Cornwall, 153; in Isle of Man, 220; and gypsies, 275

Militia, West Norfolk, 24, 27, 28; Captain Thomas Borrow’s commission in, 25

Miracle Plays, Cornish, 206

Monthly Magazine, The, 44, 46 et seq., 335

Moore (Manx poet), 217

Morning Chronicle, The, 301

Morshead, Captain W., 23

Moscow, Borrow’s visit to, 89

Mousehold Heath, Norwich, 1

Mumber Lane (“Mumper’s Dingle”), 55, 309

Murray, John, 51, 64, 75 (note), 110 et seq., 116, 121, 123, 129, 130, 133, 134, 200, 201, 215, 231, 233, 337; and “Romany Rye,” 224 et seq.

“Murtagh,” Wild Irish boy, 29, 70, 184, 265

Museum, British, and Borrow, 80, 130

Mutiny, The Indian, 228

N

Napier, Colonel Elers, 95, 96, 102

Naturalism, Borrow’s, 341

New Monthly, The, 44

“Nokkums, Queen of the” (see Blyth, Esther)

Nonconformity, Borrow on, 321

Norman Cross, 2, 26, 27

Norwich, 1, 4; West Norfolks’ return to, 29; Borrow’s home-coming, 66, 67, 72, 79; Borrow’s old age in, 258

— Grammar School, 29, 30

O

Oehlenschläger, 78, 330 et seq.

Omar Khayyam, 255

Once a Week, 218, 234

Oulton, 69, 97; Borrow settles at, 105, 106, 116, 132; Borrow returns to, 252, 258; picture of Borrow’s last years at, 260; Richard Ford at, 125

Owen, Gronwy, 197, 228

Oxford Review, 47

P

Padstow, Cornwall, 199

Palmerston, Lord, 124

Parnell’s “Hermit,” 221

Patriotism, Borrow’s, 222

Pengelly, Cornwall, 199

Penquite, Cornwall, 147, 151 et seq.; Borrow leaves, 199

Pentire Point, Cornwall, 199

Pentreath, Dolly, 183, 186

Penzance, Borrow at, 182 et seq.

Perfrement, Ann (see Borrow, Mrs. Thomas)

“Perpinia,” Story of, 289 et seq.

Peto, Sir Morton, 121, 137

“Petulengro, Jasper” (Ambrose Smith), 1, 4, 5, 6, 35, 53, 65, 263, 308

Peyrecourt, 71

Phillips, Sir Richard, publisher, 44, 45, 46 et seq., 69, 335

Pixies, The Cornish, 166 et seq.

Playfair, Dr., 239

Plymouth, 148

Plymouth Mail, 147

Poetry, Borrow’s, 234

Pollards, The, of Woolston, 168 et seq.

Portugal, Borrow’s first visit to, 91 et seq.

Procter, Mrs., 252

Protestantism, Borrow’s, 19, 211, 295, 307, 313; Berkeley’s, of St. Cleer, 153

Pugilism, Borrow’s admiration of, 1, 5, 8, 9, 12, 22, 24, 33, 34, 156, 203, 245, 259

Punch (quoted), 156

Pushkin, on Borrow’s “Targum,” 90

Q

Quarterly Review, 52, 117, 128, 129, 130, 142, 226, 231

Quesada, Spanish leader, 72; assassination of, 301, 340

Quevedo, and Elis Wyn, 324

Quiller-Couch, Thomas, 166 (quoted), 174 (note)

Quincey, De, 34 (quoted)

R

“Rasselas” and “Joseph Sell,” 53

Reade, Charles, 342

Redruth, Borrow at, 180

Religion, Gypsies and, 272 et seq.

Restormel Castle, 178

Richmond, Borrow gives dinner at, 233

Ritchie, Ewing, 140

“Romano Lavo-Lil,” 243, 248 (note), 275, 284 et seq.; its publication, 251

“Romantic Ballads,” The, 69, 74, 329 et seq.

Romany language, 264 et seq.

“Romany Rye,” The, 9, 11, 34, 60 et seq., 70, 125, 193, 199, 215, 302, 339; attack on Bowring in, 73, 75; Dr. Jessopp on, 142; its publication, 201, 224 et seq., 244

Rough Tor, Cornwall, 194

S

St. Cleer, Cornwall, 21, 147 et seq.

St. Michael’s Mount, 183

Salisbury Plain, 54

Sampson, John, 264

Saturday Review, 227

“Scandinavia, Songs of, 74

“Scholar Gypsy, The,” 287

Scotland, Borrow’s tramp through, 230; tour of 1866, 237

Scott, Sir W., 218 (note), 237, 240, 285, 316 et seq.

Scott-Macfie, R.A., 277

Sebastopol, Pall of, 222

Seccombe, Thomas (quoted), 13

“Sell, Joseph,” 53, 54

Seville, Borrow settles in, 95, 97

“Shales, Marshland,” 72, 250

Shaw, Thomas (Lord Advocate), 268 (note)

Shelta, the Tinkers’ Language, 242, 265 et seq.

“Sidi Habismilk,” 103, 116, 123, 125

Simpson and Rackham, of Norwich, 4, 35

Simpson, William, 35, 36, 43

Skeppers, The, of Oulton, 85

“Slingsby, Jack” (“Lavengro”), 55, 309

Smith, Ambrose, 4, 68, 69 (see also “Petulengro”)

—, the elder, 3, 4, 26

“Snob Papers,” The, 139

Southey, Taylor’s letter to, 39

Spain, Borrow’s visits to, 92 et seq.; his view of, 297 et seq.

Spectator, The, 235

Sterne, Borrow compared with, 12, 13

Stevenson, R. L., 13

Stirling-Maxwell, Sir W., reviews “Lavengro,” 133

Stonehenge, 54, 158

Stowe, Mrs. Beecher, 157

Strickland, Agnes, 139

“Swayne Vonved,” 173, 180, 243, 299, 334 et seq.

T

Tangier, Borrow’s visit to, 98 et seq.

“Targum,” Borrow’s, 90, 246

Taylor, Baron, 71

—, John, publisher, 69

—, Miss Jane, of Penquite, 169 et seq.

—, Robert, of Penquite, 147 et seq.

—, William, of Norwich, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 45, 46, 73, 86, 121, 314

Tennyson, Lord, 305; the Arthurian Legend, 162, 197

Thackeray, W. M., 139, 305, 341

Thomas, Edward, 320 (note)

Thurtell, John, 28, 33, 34, 125, 224

Tinkers’ language (see Shelta)

Tintagel, Cornwall, 195 et seq.

Tol-pedn-Penwith, 184

Tombland Fair, 72

Tredinnick, Borrows of, 21

Tregeagle, The legend of, 161 et seq.

Trethevy Stone, The, 158, 159

“Tristram Shandy” and “Lavengro,” 12

Truro, Borrow at, 180

Turner, Dawson, of Yarmouth, 122

U

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 157, 342

Universal Review, 47, 52

Usóz, Don Luis, 96, 99, 24

V

Valpy, Edward, 30, 32; flogs Borrow, 33

“Veiled Period, The,” 68 et seq.

Vidocq, 71

Villiers, Sir G., Minister at Madrid, 93

“Vipers, King of the,” 3

“Visions of Sleeping Bard,” Publication of, 231

W

Wales, Borrow’s love of, 19, 320; first visit to, 208 et seq.; second visit to, 227; gypsies in, 275, 279

Wallace, A. R., 198

Wandsworth, Gypsies at, 286

War Office, Borrow and the, 83

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 54, 134 et seq., 138, 143, 232, 246 et seq., 252, 253, 270, 287 et seq.

Weare, William, Murder of, 34, 125

Welsh language, Borrow learns, 36; criticism of Borrow’s knowledge of, 211 et seq., 322

Wherry Hotel, The, 259

Wilby, agent of the Bible Society, 91

“Wild Wales,” 11, 208 et seq., 232, 236, 319 et seq.; publication of, 234; reviews of, 235

Williams, Peter and Winifred, 11, 55, 308

Willow Lane, Norwich, 29, 68

Wilson, Sir Archdale, 31

Woodbridge, FitzGerald at, 257

Woolston, Cornwall, 150 et seq.

Wrestling, 203, 204

Wyn, Elis, 10, 79, 197, 208, 229 231, 323 et seq.

Y

Yarmouth, Borrow lives at, 145, 146, 224

Z

“Zincali, The,” 11, 34, 35, 100, 103, 110 et seq., 124, 176, 251, 266, 271 et seq.

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