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In early eighteenth-century texts, the gypsy is frequently figured as an amusing rogue; by the Victorian period, it has begun to take on a nostalgic, romanticiz

Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times?

Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period examines the ways writers and artists from the Romantic period depict gypsies. It examines how various aspec

This book is about the origin and development of the presentation of gypsies as narrative device in West-European children’s literature.

Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations.