And to the picturesque Mousehold Heath you may still climb and recall one of the first struggles for liberty and progress that past ages have seen, the Norfolk rising under Robert Kett which has only not been glorified in song and in picture, because-- Treason doth never prosper--what's the reason?
Why if it prosper none dare call it treason.
And Kett's so-called rebellion was destined to failure, and its leader to cruel martyrdom.

Mousehold Heath has been made the subject of paintings by Turner and Crome, and of fine word pictures by George Borrow.

When Borrow and his parents lighted upon Norwich in 1814 and 1816 the city had inspiring literary associations.

Before the invention of railways it seemed not uncommon for a fine intellectual life to emanate from this or that cathedral city.

Such an intellectual life was associated with Lichfield when the Darwins and the Edgeworths gathered at the Bishop's Palace around Dr.Seward and his accomplished daughters.
Norwich has more than once been such a centre.