John Richard Greene’s Stray Studies from England and Italy collects essays and historical sketches ranging across English and Italian subjects — church architecture, landscape, literary history, and local character. Greene, best known for his Short History of the English People, here displays a more essayistic register, combining scholarly knowledge with travel observation and aesthetic reflection.
The English chapters touch on cathedral towns, rural history, and literary landscapes, while the Italian pieces draw on Greene’s time in the south of Europe during his later years. Download the free EPUB for an elegant set of Victorian historical essays from one of the period’s finest writers.