One of the Authors featured in Literary Norfolk
George Burrow (1803-81)
'I am not a man of Llydaw... but of Norfolk where the people eat the best dumplings in the world and speak the purest English'
Itinerant Victorian writer Borrow was born at Dumpling Green just outside East Dereham. He spent several years in Norwich, where he developed his love of languages (Borrow gained a working knowledge of at least sixteen different languages, hence his Romany title 'Lavengro' or 'Word-Master'). It was on Mousehold Heath, Norwich, that Borrow discovered a gypsy encampment and a people who inspired his most famous adventures - part-fiction, part-memoir ('in the following pages I have endeavoured to describe a dream') - Lavengro (1851) and its sequel Romany Rye (1857).
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