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The Romany Rye is a novel by George Borrow, written in 1857. This was the play in progress when the Theatre Royal in Exeter burnt down in 1887
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Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long been considered a classic of 19th-century English literature. According to the author lav-engro is a Romany word meaning "word master". The historian G. M. Trevelyan called …
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Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow, first published in 1862. The book recounts Borrow's personal experiences and insights while touring Wales alone on foot after a family holiday in Llangollen in 1854, and has come to be regarded as a …