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In December 1815, Thomas Hood, aged 16, who was later to make a modest name as a jobbing humourist, illustrator and novelist, took a trip to Dundee in Scotland. While there he sent a letter back to his family describing his impressions of the city, some of which were recounted, not in prose, but in verse:
Instead of giving you any regular description of this irregular town, I shall give you some extracts from my note-book, wherein I am endeavouring to describe it after the manner of Anstey’s Bath Guide, in letters from a family (Mr Blunderhead’s) to their friends in London.1
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Seaton, A.V. (2016). Getting Socially on the Road: The Short, Happy Life of the Anapaestic Tourism Narrative, 1766–1830. In: Henes, M., Murray, B.H. (eds) Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form, 1760–1900. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137543394_6
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