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EPPING FOREST ITS LITERARY AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS

Written by William Addison
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. in 1945

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EPPING FOREST ITS LITERARY AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS
Written by William Addison.
Stock no. 1806141
1st. 1945. Hardback. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Ex-lib with library labels to endpapers and base of spine else a clean copy.

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Cover of EPPING FOREST ITS LITERARY AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS by William Addison

Contents

  • I. Forest legends - The founding of Waltham Abbey
  • II. Royal Forest - Barking Abbey - Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
  • III. Mary Tudor at Copt Hall - John Foxe at Waltham Abbey - Foxe's family
  • IV. Servants of the queen - Roger Ascham at Walthamstow - Sir Thomas Smith at Theydon Mount
  • V. The Green Knight, George Gascoigne of Walthamstow
  • VI. Sweet pipings - Nicholas Breton at Walthamstow - Queen Elizabeth at Wanstead
  • VII. Thomas Lodge at Leyton - The martyrdom on Stratford Green - 'Rosalynde' and 'As You Like It'
  • VIII. Ben Jonson and Lady Mary Wroth - Ben Jonson at Loughton Hall
  • IX. Priest and presbyter - Archbishop Harsnett at Chigwell
  • X. Donne and holy Mr; Herbert - John Donne at Abury Hatch
  • XI. Francis Quarles of Romford - Elizabeth of Bohemia
  • XII. Hunting and hawking - King James - Juliana Berners - Bishop Hall at Waltham Abbey
  • XIII. Honest Izaak - Izaak Walton and the river Lea - Walton and Fuller at Waltham Abbey
  • XIV. John Eliot, the Apostle of the Indians - Essex and New England - Charles I at Barking
  • XV. Worthy Doctor Fuller - Thomas Fuller at Waltham Abbey - The effect of the Commonwealth on the Forest
  • XVI. Pepys in Epping Forest - Transport of timber - Sir John Minnes at Loughton
  • XVII. Old Strype of Leyton
  • XVIII. Daniel Defoe - The merry grant to Randolph Peperking - journal of the Plague Year
  • XIX. The Waltham Blacks - Dick Turpin - 'The Green Man' at Leytonstone
  • XX. Prior at Down Hall - Dr. Thomas Newton - Locke at High Laver
  • XXI. Watts and Wesley - Aaron Hill's crazy schemes - John Adkins - Elizabeth Tollet
  • XXII. Elizabeth Fry of Plashet - Lord Lister - John Fothergill
  • XXIII. John Clare with Dr. Allen at Hight beach
  • XXIV. The Easter Hunt - Hood at Wanstead - Wanstead House
  • XXV. Tennyson at High Beach - Matthew Arnold at Woodford
  • XXVI. The Taylors of Ongar - David Livingston
  • XXVII. Writer for children - The Howitts at Theydon Bois - Dr. Southwood Smith - Caroline Smith
  • XXVIII. Disraeli at Cogan's school - Mr Cogan - The Forsters - William Morris
  • XXIX. Dickens at Chigwell - 'Barnaby Rudge' - Sir Walter Besant's 'All in a Garden Fair'
  • XXX. Trollope at Waltham House - Trollop0e in the field - Henry Doubleday, the Epping naturalist
  • XXXI. The People's Forest - Enclosures - The Epping Forest Acts
  • XXXII. Wellington at the Warren - 'Liza of Lambeth' - T. E. Lawrence at Chingford - Kipling at Loughton
  • Topographical Note
  • Index