Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging Book

	Editor's Note
	Preface
	The Shortcomings of Christian England [1770]	1
	Letter to Mr. Sterne [1776]	6
	Voyage to England [1789]	9
	A Word about Dinners [1846]	17
	From The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' [1897]	25
	The English Flag [1891]	36
	Letter to David Kahma [1947]; Letter to Geoffrey Stone [1948]; Letter to Edgar Preston Richardson [1948]	41
	Letter to Henry Eliot [1914]; Letter to Eleanor Hinkley [1914]	47
	The Tiredness of Rosabel [1924]	54
	First Steps [1979]	62
	Bloomsbury: An Encounter with Edith Sitwell [1932]	72
	Confessions of a Down and Out [1933]	83
	From Choice of Straws [1965]	91
	London at Night [1969]	103
	In Defence of the Underground [1987]	109
	From The Angel at the Gate [1982]	126
	From The Lonely Londoners [1956]	135
	'From Lucy: Englan' Lady' [1982]; 'From Lucy: Carnival Wedd'n', 1981' [1982]	145
	From Three Continents [1987]	150
	A Voyage [1954]	157
	An Ingrate's England [1989]	169
	First Impressions of London [1993]	172
	From Little Eden: A Child at War [1978]	175
	The Journey [1987]	183
	From Oleander, Jacaranda [1994]	194
	From Bye-Bye, Blackbird [1971]	208
	From Darkest England [1996]	217
	Living in Earl's Court [1984]	223
	A General Election [1983]	235
	From Pilgrim's Way [1988]	240
	The Child I Never Was [1986]; Assassins [1983]	248
	From Sour Sweet [1982]	251
	Fly Away Home [1997]	260
	Inglan is a Bitch [1980]	267
	From Reef [1994]	271
	From The Remains of the Day [1989]	280
	London Taxi Driver [1988]	289
	The Machine That Cried [1986]	292
	Disparities [1986]	295
	Acknowledgements	309
	Index	313