Representations of the Gypsy in the Romantic Period examines the ways writers and artists from the Romantic period depict gypsies. It examines how various aspec

Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times?

This book is about the origin and development of the presentation of gypsies as narrative device in West-European children’s literature.

Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations.

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the ea