Bohemias, Novel of the Two, ‘Aylwin’ as, [368]
Borrow, George, [10]; method of learning languages, [58]; Watts-Dunton’s description of, [95]–106, [108]–16; characteristics of, [99]–106, [368]; his gypsy women scenic characters, [390]; Watts-Dunton’s reminiscences of:—his first meeting with, [95]; his shyness, [99]; Watts attacks it; tries Bamfylde Moore Carew; then tries beer, the British bruiser, philology, Ambrose Gwinett, etc., [100]; a stroll in Richmond Park; visit to ‘Bald-Faced Stag’; Jerry Abershaw’s sword; his gigantic green umbrella, [101]–2; tries Whittlesea Mere; Borrow’s surprise; vipers of Norman Cross; Romanies and vipers, [104]; disclaims taint of printers’ ink; ‘Who are you?’ [105]; an East Midlander; the Shales Mare, [106]; Cromer sea best for swimming; rainbow reflected in Ouse and Norfolk sand, [106]; goes to a gypsy camp; talks about Matthew Arnold’s ‘Scholar-Gypsy,’ [108]; resolves to try it on gypsy woman; watches hawk and magpie, [109]; meets Perpinia Boswell; ‘the popalated gypsy of Codling Gap,’ [110]; Rhona Boswell, girl of the dragon flies; the sick chavo; forbids Pep to smoke, [112]; description of Rhona, [113]; the Devil’s Needles; reads Glanville’s story; Rhona bored by Arnold, [114]; hatred of tobacco, [115]; last sight of Borrow on Waterloo Bridge, [115]; sonnet on, [116]
Boswell, Perpinia, [110]–12
Boswell, Rhona, her ‘Haymaking Song,’ [33]–5; her prototype, first meeting with, [63]; description from ‘Aylwin,’ [64]; East Anglia and ‘Cowslip Land’ linked by, [72], [108]; description of in unpublished romance, [110]–15; her beauty, [113]; courageous nature of, [366], [406]; presented dramatically, [356]; type of English heroine, [366]; Tennyson’s ‘Maud’ compared with, [413]; George Meredith on, [418]; humour of, [421]; ‘Rhona’s Letter,’ [402]–5; rhyme-pattern of same, [419]
Boswell, Sylvester, [110]
Bounty, mutineers of, [310]
Boxhill, Meredith’s house at, [283]
Bracegirdle, Mrs., [131]
‘Breath of Avon: To English-speaking Pilgrims on Shakespeare’s Birthday,’ [31]