Isopel Berners (Classic Reprint)

The Romany Rye first saw the light in the sleepy little East Anglian township of East Dereham, in the county distinguished by Borrow as the one in which the people eat the best dumplings in the world and speak the purest English. Pretty quiet Dfereham was the retreat in those days of a Lady Bountiful in the person of Dame Eleanor Fenn, relict of the worthy editor of the Paston Letters. It is better known in literary history as the last resting-place of a sad and unquiet spirit, escaped from a world in which it had known nought but sorrow, of England ssweetest and most pious bard, William Cowper. But Destiny was weaving a robuster thread to connect East Dereham with literature, for George Borrowl was born there on July 5th, 1803, and, nomad though he was, the place was always dear to his heart as his earliest home. In 1816, after ramblings far and wide both in I reland and in Scotland, the Borrows settled in Norwich, where George was schooled under a master whose name at 1H ewas christened George Henry, but he dropped the Henry, as Tobias George Smollett dropped his George.
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