Isopel Berners - The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825

Isopel Berners, by George Borrow
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Transcribed from the 1901 Hodder and Stoughton edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
ISOPEL BERNERS
BY
GEORGE BORROW
The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825: An Episode in the Autobiography of George Borrow.
THE TEXT EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION & NOTES BY
THOMAS SECCOMBE
AUTHOR OF “THE AGE OF JOHNSON” ASSISTANT EDITOR OF THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY LONDON: HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27 PATERNOSTER ROW
1901
Printed by Hazell , Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury .
p. ii
INTRODUCTION.
I.
The last century was yet in its infancy when the author of 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 ...