East Anglia: Personal Recollections and Historical Associations

Many, many years ago, when wandering in the North of Germany, I came to an hotel in the Fremden Buch, of which (Englishmen at that time were far more patriotic and less cosmopol...

In his published Memoirs, the great Metternich observes that if he had never been born he never could have loved or hated. Following so illustrious a precedent, I may observe th...

Such were the first words I heard as I left the hotel where I was a temporary sojourner about nine o'clock. Of course I turned to look at the speaker. He wore an oilskin cap, wi...

About 1830 there was, if not a good deal of actual light let into such dark places as our Suffolk village--where it was considered the whole duty of man, as regards the poor, to...

When David Copperfield, Dickens tells us, first caught sight of Yarmouth, it seemed to him to look rather spongy and soppy. As he drew nearer, he remarks, 'and saw the whole adj...

The traveller as he leaves the English coast for Antwerp or Rotterdam or the northern ports of Germany, may remember that the last glimpse of his native land is the light from O...

In the beginning of the present century, a disgraceful attack on Methodism--by which the writer means Dissent in all its branches--appeared in what was then the leading critical...

'My father destined me,' writes John Milton, in his 'Defensio Secunda,' 'while yet a little boy, for the study of humane letters, which I served with such eagerness that, from t...

Those who imagine Suffolk to be a flat and uninteresting county, with no charms for the eye and no associations worth speaking of, are much mistaken. There are few lovelier rive...

Abbo Floriacencis, who flourished in the year A.D. 910, describes East Anglia as 'very noble, and particularly because of its being watered on all sides. On the south and east i...

As I write I have lying before me a little book called 'Hugh Latimer; or, The School-boy's Friendship,' by Miss Strickland, author of the 'Little Prisoner,' 'Charles Grant,' 'Pr...

Charles Kingsley was wont to glorify the teaching of the hills, and to maintain that the man of the mountain is more imaginative and poetical than the man of the plain. There ar...