I Walked by Night - Being the Life and History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers
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We take pride in ser He was first caught poachin I Walked by Night by Himself. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering.
Pages are slightly yellowed with light cracking to Slight lean, Corners bumped. Partial remains of Plate to inside Back. A lovely copy, clean and clear, black and white sketches, edited from the notes of the self-styled 'King of the Norfolk Poachers'.
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In May she persuaded Rolfe to assign all rights to his book of Recollections to her for the sum of The book was published the following year with illustrations by Edward Seago who lived in Brooke, a village halfway between Bungay and Norwich. It was an immediate success and greeted with critical acclaim.
Lilias had not, though, delved with any great depth into the truth or otherwise of Rolfes account of his life and times, preferring instead to colour the text with nostalgia as befitted her Country Womans Week column. Frederick Rolfe was born in Norfolk in , a sickly child who was brought up in poverty, his father a farm worker.
Either under the influence of his father, or his more loved grandparents, he developed a deep resentment towards the landowning classes and began poaching at the tender age of nine. He did, though, develop a love of reading and writing in his early teenage years, due to the encouragement of the local vicar. He later wrote; when I get hold of a pen and begin to rite sic I feel I can go on just as long as I can hold it.
Thoughts, he continued, writing in his distinctive phonetic fashion, come into his head and he could see again the old faces and places that he had forgotten. But Rolfe had an insatiable need for excitement, which he satisfied by honing his skills as a poacher.
He was 20 when he first went to prison and in his book described the daily routine in detail. Lilias Rider Haggard did not condone the crime but she knew the eye witness accounts he gave would be a valuable piece of social history: When, in , Charlotte Paton embarked on her task of discovering the identity of the anonymous author, Rolfes book had become a classic of its kind. She had been given a copy many years before by her mother, who thought it might be of interest to her as it was partly about Bungay, where she had grown up and where Rolfe had lived for the last 20 years of his life.
I walked by night, being the life & history of the king of the Norfolk poachers,
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