Arnold's "The Scholar Gypsy". A poem based on a legend recounted by Joseph Glanvill in The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661), on the thoughts and reflections of Roma people's relationship with God. 1853: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski's "Chata za wsią (Polish)" "The Cottage behind the Village." Realistic depiction of Roma in Poland in the 1800s. 1856: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's verse novel Aurora Leigh. Marian Erle is Rom. 1857: George Borrow's novels Lavengro and The Romany Rye 1860: George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. The protagonist Maggie runs away to Roma, but decides she has gone out of her depth. They do not harm her, but the episode darkly prefigures the steps that she will take in adulthood. 1891: J. M. Barrie's novel The Little Minister. A young Scottish minister falls in love with a wild Roma girl. 1892: Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band". Dr. Grimesby Roylott is established as being friendly with a group of wandering Romani, and gives them permission to encamp om his estate. At the start of the story, Holmes speculates that there will be a connection between the death of Helen Stoner's sister and the Romani (among other things). When Dr. Watson questions what the Romani might have done, Holmes responds that he cannot imagine. Dr. Watson responds with "I see many objections to any such theory", which Holmes admits to also seeing. In the end, the Romani are shown to have had no involvement in the death of Helen's sister. The story ends with Holmes admitting his mistake, noting that it shows "how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data". 1892: Maxim Gorky's short story "Makar Chudra" (Макар Чудра). A love story between the Roma girl Rada and the horse thief Zobar. 1897: Bram Stoker's Dracula. Features a group of Romanies working for the Count. 20th century 1902: E. Nesbit's Five Children and It. The children run into a band of English Roma on the road. 1908: Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Toad, owner of Toad Hall, an impulsive and conceited character, buys a horse-drawn English Romami vardo. Toad later trades a stolen horse to a Roma for food. 1911: Saki's short story "Esme" (included in The Chronicles of Clovis). Features a degrading depiction of a Traveller child that is used to foreground the heartless nature of the English aristocrats. 1926: D. H. Lawrence's The