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The Reverend Edmund Jones (1702–1793), an Independent preacher from north-west Monmouthshire, is best known for his works on apparitions, fairies, and ghosts and a notable history of his birth parish. Jones was also a revivalist, undertaking extensive itinerant preaching throughout Wales and the border counties of England until late in his long life. Jones's travel was "purposeful", and such purposeful travel, undertaken in connection with some vocational occupation, was increasingly widespread throughout the eighteenth century. Like many other eighteenth-century authors, the experience of travel had a profound effect on Jones's worldview and, consequently, on the nature, organisation and subjects of his writings. This article explores the influences of travel on Jones's published and unpublished works in order to examine the effects of purposeful travel on texts not usually regarded as travel literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
