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Allowed to read whatever she pleased, little Eleanor at nine discovered George Borrow's Lavengro, the classic of gypsy life. Then & there she "knew perfectly well that Borrow's books had changed -forever - my life. . . ." Eventually she found what she was looking for - primitive, half-naked, arrogant gypsies in sultry caves near Almeria in Spain; nude flamenco dancers in the dives of Barcelona; tinkering tribes in the forest of Rumania; Andalusian gypsies who cured her fever with feverish music. But Lady Eleanor's stories of the gypsies are curiously impersonal and sketchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gypsy Blood | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Lavengro," by G. Borrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recent Additions to Union Library | 1/8/1907 | See Source »

...Lavengro," "The New Arabian Nights," "Across the Plains," and "When a Man's Single,"- which bear upon the lecture of this week-will be reserved within a few days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Notice. | 1/11/1894 | See Source »

...Lavengro," "The New Arabian Nights," "Across the Plains," and "When a Man's Single,"- which bear upon the lecture of this week-will be reserved within a few days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Notice. | 1/10/1894 | See Source »

...Lavengro," "The New Arabian Nights," "Across the Plains," and "When a Man's Single,"- which bear upon the lecture of this week-will be reserved within a few days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Copeland's Lectures. | 1/8/1894 | See Source »

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