Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 1 [of 3]

by J. Ewing Ritchie

Transcribed from the 1895 Jarrold and Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly allowing their copy to be used for this transcription.

“This is the condition of humanity; we are placed as it were in an intellectual twilight where we discover but few things clearly, and yet we see enough to tempt us with the hope of making better and more discoveries.”—Bolingbroke.

Crying for the Light
or Fifty Years Ago

J Ewing Ritchie
Author of ‘East Anglia’

Vol 1

London: Jarrold and Sons
Warwick Lane E.C.
1895

THIS STORY
IS
Dedicated to
ONE OF MY OLDEST FRIENDS,
BETTER KNOWN TO BETTER MEN
AS THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES STANSFELD, M.P.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	PARKER’S PIECE,SLOVILLE	[1]
II.	THE ACTRESS AND THE WAIF	[28]
III.	GOING UP TO TOWN	[53]
IV.	A YOUNG PREACHER	[76]
V.	AFTER THE SERVICE	[91]
VI.	AT SLOVILLE AGAIN	[112]
VII.	THE CHARTISTS	[132]
VIII.	IN BOHEMIA	[162]
IX.	THE OLD, OLD STORY	[197]
X.	UNDER THE STARS	[229]

CHAPTER I.
PARKER’S PIECE, SLOVILLE.