Publisher Description

Novelist Emily Gerard (1849–1905) went with her husband, an officer in the Austrian army, to Transylvania for two years in 1883. Then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today a region of western Romania, Transylvania was little known to readers back in England. In the years following, she wrote this full-length account (published in 1888) as well as several articles on the region, which Bram Stoker used when researching the setting for Dracula. She describes encounters with the different nationalities that made up the Transylvanian people: Romanians, Saxons and gypsies. Full of startling anecdotes and written in a novelistic style, her work combines her personal recollections with a detailed account of the landscape and people. The second volume covers the gypsy and Jewish populations, as well as Gerard's mixed feelings on leaving the country. For more information on this author, see _id=geraem

Table of Contents

27. Roumanian superstition continued. Animals, weather, mixed superstitions, spirits, shadows, etc.; 28. Saxon superstition. Remedies, witches, weather-makers; 29. Saxon superstition continued. Animals, plants, days; 30. Saxon customs and dramas; 31. Buried treasures; 32. The Tziganes. Liszt and Lenau; 33. The Tziganes. Their life and occupations; 34. The Tziganes. Humour, proverbs, religion and morality; 35. The gipsy fortune-teller; 36. The Tzigane musician; 37. Gipsy poetry; 38. The Szekels and Armenians; 39. Frontier regiments; 40. Wolves, bears, and other animals; 41. A Roumanian village; 42. A gipsy camp; 43. The Bruckenthals; 44. Still-life at Hermanstadt. A Transylvanian Cranford; 44. Fire and blood. The Hermanstadt murder; 46. The Klausenburg carnival; 47. Journey from Hermanstadt to Kronstadt; 48. Kronstadt; 49. Sinala; 50. Up the mountains; 51. The Bulea See; 52. The Wienerwald. A digression; 53. A week in the pine-region; 54. La Dus and Bistra; 55. A night in the Stina; 56. Farewell to Transylvania. The enchanted garden.

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Gerard's informative and highly readable travelogue about the country and people of Transylvania inspired Bram Stoker when writing Dracula.

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Gerard's informative and highly readable travelogue about the country and people of Transylvania inspired Bram Stoker when writing Dracula.

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A rare first-hand Victorian account of this little-known region, published in 1888 when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In a highly engaging, anecdotal style, novelist Emily Gerard combines her personal recollections of with a detailed account of the landscape, people, superstitions and customs.

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A rare first-hand Victorian account of this little-known region, published in 1888 when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In a highly engaging, anecdotal style, novelist Emily Gerard combines her personal recollections of with a detailed account of the landscape, people, superstitions and customs.

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