Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle July 1825 George Henry Borrow Books
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Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle July 1825 George Henry Borrow Books
This book is simply the excerpts from Lavengro Part IILavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2).The only difference is that it has an introduction that I found interesting, which includes some good biography about Borrow, and a bit about how his writing was being critiqued around twenty years after his death. I give it four stars for this interesting ten-ish pages.
I did not end up reading any of the text since it is identical with the text already in Lavengro Part II, starting when Borrow meets Isopel in the Dingle, and ending when they part.
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Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle July 1825 George Henry Borrow Books Reviews
When I downloaded this book based solely on the title, my expectation was that it would provide George Borrow’s additional development of Isopel Berners, the powerful, memorable and independent female character who appears first in the later chapters of Borrow’s “Lavengro” and disappears from the narrative in the early chapters of “The Romany Rye.” Not so. This is a well written piece of literary criticism and history, covering interesting details of Borrow’s life and writings. It also combines in one volume those parts of Borrow’s writings that include Isopel Berners. The criticism and history were written by Thomas Seccombe, a little known English writer who (according to Wikipedia) was “from 1891 to 1901, assistant editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, in which he wrote over 700 entries.” This work was first published in 1901, twenty years after Borrow’s death, well after both the highs and lows of public and critical acceptance that accompanied Borrows work.
This work can be read with understanding only after one has read both “Lavengro” and “The Romany Rye”; and it would, in my opinion, have little value to a reader who is not acquainted with those books. However, with that said, I enjoyed the insights provided by Seccombe and recommend the book as a useful study to enhance one’s understanding of Borrow’s life and writings. I did not reread the included chapters from Borrow, whose books I had recently read for the first time.
I will mention a couple of specifics. In Seccombe’s analysis and in other reviews that I have read, much is made of the description of the fight between the protagonist and the Flaming Tinman (a crude and bellicose traveling tinker and bruiser). Borrow’s description of this fight, remembered or imagined, is praised by several reviewers as one of the best description of personal pugilistic fighting in the English language. I simply don’t get it. This part of the narrative is well written, but I don’t see anything particularly outstanding about it. Certainly it is no better than some of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's descriptions of 19th century English pugilism. Also in Seccombe’s analysis and in other criticisms, there is almost no mention of the postilion’s story. I personally found the tale of the postilion, which occupies the final few chapters of “Lavengro,” to be one of the most interesting in Borrow’s two books; and I do not understand why it is downplayed by reviewers both in Borrow’s time and today. In the postilion’s tale Borrow puts his anti-Catholic religious prejudices on full display; but the tale is nonetheless well written, introduces or elaborates on other characters in the memoir, includes several humorous scenes, and should not be ignored.
This book is simply the excerpts from Lavengro Part IILavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2).
The only difference is that it has an introduction that I found interesting, which includes some good biography about Borrow, and a bit about how his writing was being critiqued around twenty years after his death. I give it four stars for this interesting ten-ish pages.
I did not end up reading any of the text since it is identical with the text already in Lavengro Part II, starting when Borrow meets Isopel in the Dingle, and ending when they part.
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