Category: Travel Writing
The Old Inns of Old England!--how alluring and how inexhaustible a theme! When you set out to reckon up the number of those old inns that demand a mention, how vast a subject it is! For although the Vandal--identified here with the brewer and the ground-landlord--has been busy...
It can be no matter for surprise that many inns have historic associations. Indeed, when we consider that in olden times the hostelries of town and country touched life at every...
17. CHAPTER XIIThere is no doubt that, in a certain sense, all inns were anciently hand-in-glove with the highwaymen. No hostelry so respectable that it could safely give warranty for its ostl...
6. CHAPTER VIInns, or guest-houses for the proper lodging and entertainment of travellers bent on pilgrimage, were among the earliest forms of hostelries; and those great bournes of religiou...
16. Chapter XXXII. of _Nicholas Nickleby_, cannot be identified: there are,and long have been, so many handsome hotels in that region. It was in the coffee-room of this establishment that Nicholas encountered Sir Mulberry Hawk; and the description of t...
7. CHAPTER VIIAt St. Albans we have still something in the way of a pilgrim’s inn. St. Albans was, of course, the home of the wonder-working shrine of St. Alban, the proto-martyr of Britain,...
5. CHAPTER VA host of writers have written in praise--and rightly in praise--of that fine flower of many centuries of innkeeping evolution, the Coaching Inn of the early and mid-nineteenth...
9. CHAPTER IXRomance, as we have already seen, was enacted in many ways in the inns of long ago. Love and hatred, comedy and tragedy, and all the varied moods by which human beings are swaye...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe mediæval hostelries, generally planned in the manner of the old galleried inns that finally went out of fashion with the end of the coaching age, consisting of a building en...
10. CHAPTER XWhat visions of Early Victorian good-fellowship and conviviality, of the roast-beef and rum-punch kind, are called up by the title! The Pickwickian Inn was, in the ’30’s of the...
4. CHAPTER IVThe inns of old time, serving as they did the varied functions of clubs and assembly-rooms and places of general resort, in addition to that of hotel, were often, at times when...
2. CHAPTER IIInns, hotels, public-houses of all kinds, have a very ancient lineage, but we need not in this place go very deeply into their family history, or stodge ourselves with fossilise...
13. Chapter XX., to which the worried Mr. Pickwick “bent his steps” after theinterview with Dodson and Fogg, in Freeman’s Court, Cornhill. We know it was in some court on the right-hand, or north, side of Cheapside; but, on the other hand, we do not know...
1. CHAPTER IThe Old Inns of Old England!--how alluring and how inexhaustible a theme! When you set out to reckon up the number of those old inns that demand a mention, how vast a subject it...
14. Chapter XXXV. sees Mr. Pickwick and his friends arrived at Bath and dulyinstalled in “their private sitting-rooms at the ‘White Hart’ Hotel, opposite the great Pump-room, where the waiters, from their costume, might be mistaken for Westminster boys,...
15. CHAPTER XIThe knowledge Dickens possessed of inns, old and new, was, as already said, remarkable. His education in this sort began early. From his early years in London, at the blacking f...
12. Chapter XIV., is still the subject of much heated controversy amongDickens commentators. Sandwiched as it is (in the story told by a stranger to the Pickwickians at “Eatanswill”) between Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds, it appears to be a vague re...
11. Chapter X. takes us back to London, and there brings on to the crowdedThis is how Dickens described the yard of the “White Hart.” It is a little clean-cut cameo of description, vividly portraying the features of those old galleried inns that are n...