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    George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) was an English writer of novels and of travel based on personal experiences in Europe. His travels gave...
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  • see Glossary of golf#B David Borrow (born 1952), British politician George Borrow (1803–1881), English author Nik Borrow, bird artist and ornithologist...
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    published mention of the dish is from the 1850s in the book Wild Wales by George Borrow, although earlier records in the Glamorgan Archives show a version which...
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  • junelar, junele. Parable of the Sower, Luke, 8, 4–8, as published by George Borrow in 1838 Compare with a Spanish version: Cuando una gran multitud se...
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  • Asien (1844–45). By the mid-nineteenth century the linguist and author George Borrow was able to state categorically his findings that it was a language...
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  • The Romany Rye (category George Borrow)
    The Romany Rye is a novel by George Borrow, written in 1857 as a sequel to Lavengro (1851). Largely thought to be at least partly autobiographical, The...
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    Wild Wales (category George Borrow)
    English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first published in 1862. The book recounts Borrow's personal experiences and insights while...
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  • The Zincali (category George Borrow)
    The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain is a book written by George Borrow. The first edition was published in 1841. Nine editions were published...
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    Gam's reputation was still very much alive in 19th-century Wales. George Borrow said of him, "where he achieved that glory which will for ever bloom...
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    believe that Gelert ever existed. It is recorded in Wild Wales (1862) by George Borrow, who notes it as a well known legend; by Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase...
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    English author George Borrow wrote Wild Wales (1854), which includes a lively, humorous account of his visit to Pontarfynach. The George Borrow Hotel, a 17th-century...
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    Society sent George Borrow (1803–1881) to Russia to supervise the completion of the translation of the New Testament into Manchu. Borrow learned Manchu...
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    Joha, The Beloved Folk Hero of The East (bilingual English - Arabic) George Borrow, trans. [1884]. The Turkish Jester or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr...
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    Lavengro (category George Borrow)
    Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest (1851) is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long...
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    July 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2007. "George Borrow page". Bibliomania.com site. Retrieved 2 August 2007. "George Borrow Hotel page". travelpublishing.co.uk...
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  • distinction began fading overall, and gender marking also disappeared. George Borrow notes that in 1874, some Romani speakers were still employing complete...
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    added to the village. The village pub, "The George Borrow Hotel", is named after the writer George Borrow, who travelled through Wales on foot in the...
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    and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The 19th-century author George Borrow, in his book Wild Wales, remarked of the waterfall: "What shall I liken...
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    Botcher George Borrow Bulletin, 2, 1991, 14–18. 'I saw the Diamond in the Mass of Rubbish', Richard Ford and his friendship with George Borrow, Proceedings...
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    Hadrian's Wall between England and Scotland in the Scottish Marches. George Borrow, in his Wild Wales (1862), drawn from folklore, claimed that: [It] was...
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    Ernest Wild, judge and Conservative MP Robert Baron, poet and playwright George Borrow, author John Brereton, chronicler Edward Forster FRS, writer Robert...
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  • Brecon. George Borrow disapproved of the veneer of respectability in Prichard's book: "Its grand fault is endeavouring to invest Twm Shon (a name Borrow spells...
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    to keep the assizes here in the Oxford circuit." A later traveller, George Borrow in 1862, wrote: "Monmouthshire is at present considered an English county...
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  • name was changed when the railway from Ammanford reached the village. George Borrow describes aspects of Gwter Fawr in the mid-19th century in his book...
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    in the Cronica Walliae, published in 1568. The name is translated by George Borrow as "Lake of Beauty", where the name "Tegid" derives from teg, a common...
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    against Ferdinand VII and fighting for the Liberals, travel writer George Borrow, in the course of his travels through Spain, around 1835–40, claimed...
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    Life and Letters (1908), and George Borrow and his Circle (1913). He also wrote books about Napoleon, two about George Borrow, and a volume of addresses...
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    realism, directness and simplicity of Davies' prose to that of Defoe and George Borrow. His style was described by Shaw as that of "a genuine innocent", while...
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  • 1979 until 1992, and a lifelong scholar of Gypsies, and of the author George Borrow. He was born at Dumfries, the son of a prison officer. He grew up in...
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  • with laver sauce every day!" (Collins 1875). The dish was eaten by George Borrow and is mentioned in Wild Wales in 1856. Salt marsh lamb from the River...
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