Articles about George Borrow

If you have an article relating to any aspect of George Borrow's life and work, please submit it to the website editor, Peter Ansell.

• Borrow and Kyakhta (by Simon Keeton) - GB's interest in visiting China while working for the BFBS. 
• Drinking at The Bald-Faced Stag (by Pete Ansell) - An assessment of various articles about GB that appeared just after his death. 
• The Otherness of George Borrow (by Simon Keeton) - GB's character as described by himself and by some who knew him. 
• Beeching's Sermon on George Borrow  - A sermon delivered at Norwich cathedral in 1913. (Full text, edited with introduction by P Ansell)
• Thoughts on Beeching's Sermon  (by Simon Keeton) - A companion piece to the above article.
• The Poet of Toulouse (by Simon Keeton) - Some notes on the French 17th century poet Pierre Goudelin and Borrow's translations of his works.
• Some thoughts on Lavengro Chapters 51-61 (by Mike Skillman) - An analysis of the possible route taken by Lavengro on leaving London. 
• Borrow's Original Poetry (by Pete Ansell) - An annotated collection of all the original poetry that Borrow wrote. Many of these poems have never before been clearly identified as original poems rather than translations. 
• Borrow's Gypsy Songs (by Pete Ansell) - An annotated collection of all the Gypsy songs that Borrow collected and translated, including all his Spanish Flamenco verses. 
• Some Observations of Borrow's Spanish Gypsy Songs  (by Simon Keeton) -  A companion piece to the above article.
• Antonio da Traba, Hero of Finisterre (by Peter Missler) - This is an expanded version of an article that first appeared in the George Borrow Bulletin No.20. It examines in detail Borrow's account of being arrested when he visited Finisterra (see The Bible In Spain, chapter 15.) Peter Missler lived in Spain and wrote extensively on Borrow in Spain.
• The Image of the Gypsy in Literature (by Pete Ansell). This is the text of the paper that was presented at the George Borrow Conference in Norwich in May 2026. It traces the way that Gypsies were presented in Literature from the 10th century to the time of George Borrow.
• New Life and Beauty, Out On The Open Road (by A N Wilson) - Copy of a newspaper article about GB that originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph in 2001
• Borrow House History - Copy of a newspaper article from the Norwich Evening News, 2003, based on an interview with Tony and Ann Fielder, describing how they bought and restored Borrow's Willow Lane house. 
• A Tale of Two Sisters (by Pete Ansell) - An examination of Borrow's influence in the early years of the 20th century, looking especially at the lives and careers of two sisters, May and Alice Byron.
• Spanish Booksellers - Extract from a Spanish book about the history of publishing in Spain, looking at GB's descriptions in The Bible In Spain of various booksellers that he encountered. (Translated by Alexander and Yuri Kleiner)