A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast

A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast

Gosse, Philip Henry

London: van Voorst, 1853

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1853

"...Of other walks by and bye, when I have said something of our evenings, and other Ilfracombe experience. We seemed to make less of our evenings here than we have ever done elsewhere. We used often to be tired with our hunting or walking and we were reading books which did not make us take them up very eagerly - Gosse's "Rambles on the Devonshire Coast", for example; Trench's Calderon; and other volumes taken up in a desultory way. One bit of reading we had there, however, which interested me deeply. It was Masson's "Life of Chatterton", which happily linked itself with the impressions I had received from the sight of the old church at Bristol. An hour of the evening light used often to slip away in attention to our animals. This helped to make our reading time scanty; and another distraction was an occasional visit to Mrs. and Miss Webster - a visit always made agreeable by music. I enjoyed playing to them, because G. seemed to like it as well as they...." From Recollections of Illfracombe 1856 259, also GEL 2: 247 JSTOR

Gosse, Philip Henry, A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/56995

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