1816 1st ed Survey of GYPSIES Customs Hoyland Romani Ethnography Gypsy Roma

1816 1^st ed Survey of GYPSIES Customs Hoyland Romani Ethnography Gypsy Roma

An early 19^th-century work on the life, customs, and history of gypsies. This work, based on a study made on gypsies living in Northampton, Bedford and Hertford, is one of the first works to consider the relationship between state governments and gypsies.

John Hoyland (1750 – 1831) was an English Quaker author. Known as a writer on the Romani people, he also published a religious work.

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Main author: John Hoyland

Title: A historical survey of the customs, habits, & present state of the gypsies : designed to develope the origin of this singular people, and to promote the amelioration of their condition

Published: York : Printed for the author, 1816.

Language: English

Notes & contents:

• 1^st edition

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Binding: tight and secure fine leather binding

Pages: complete with all viii + 265 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such

Publisher: York : Printed for the author, 1816.

Size: ~9in X 5.5in (22.5cm x 14cm)

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John Hoyland (1750–1831) was an English Quaker author. Known as a writer on the Romani people, he also published a religious work.

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1              Life

2              Works

3              Notes

4              External links

Life[edit]

Hoyland has been described as “of Sheffield, Yorkshire”, and as “formerly of York”. In the summer of 1814 he began to study the Romani of the East Midland counties Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, and Hertfordshire, and their poor economic state. He is reported to have fallen in love with a “black-eyed gipsy girl”; but Walter Simson’s assertion that he married one is considered unfounded.[1] He carried out extensive survey work, and sought to draw attention to his perception that the Romani needed religious conversion, as well as a better standard of living.[2] A sympathetic observer, Hoyland also supported forced education of the Romani.[3]