Leland gathered everything here directly from English Romany people. He visits a Gipsy cottage, talks with a tinker, describes respect for the dead and letters written in Romany, and traces the Gipsy words that passed into English slang, with proverbs, stories and notes on the language’s Indian roots.
A lively Victorian record of Romany speech and custom, of its time in its attitudes. Download the free EPUB.