[posted] Posted(#61930, Bowring)!

[David Price]

Observations on the State of Religion and Literature in Spain,by Bowring 61930
   [Author: John Bowring]
   [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/6/1/9/3/61930 ]
   [Files: 61930-9.txt; 61930-h.htm]




For those wishing to know: John Bowring had been on business in Spain for 
some time and on coming back to England (early 1819) he published this, 
his first book.  Bowring was a pologlot and would later become a radical 
politician and his observations forshadow the latter.  A few months after 
this he was in Norwich as a dinner guest, when a young George Borrow met 
him for the first time, giving a (somewhat biased) account in Lavengro. 
This book was their topic of conversation.

All the best,
David
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