Lavengro, the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest, published in 1851, is a heavily fictionalized account ofGeorge Borrow’searly years. Borrow, born in 1803, was a writer and self-taught polyglot, fluent in many European languages, and a lover of literature.
The Romany Rye, published six years later in 1857, is sometimes described as the “sequel” toLavengro, but in fact it begins with a straight continuation of the action of the first book, which...
