I've no doubt that some people reading this will immediately think of Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddie Mercury, others will think of the two operas both called La Bohème by Puccini and Leoncavallo or such other productions as the zarzula Bohemios by Amadeau Vives, operetta Das Veilchen vom Montmatre by Kalman and the musical Rent first presented on Broadway in the 1990s. Personally, what Bohemian brings to mind is romantic Roma clothes and starving artists in Parisian garrets.
Miss Amelia Charamy
Actually a portrait of Monna Vanna aka Belcolore
by
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
At the time the Reverend Cedric W. Jimpson lived in Little Mardlingham, most of that was in the future. However there were popular works around by the short lived Henri Murger (1822-1861), starting with romantic magazine articles in the early 1800s and by 1845 a play on the subject called La Vie de Bohème, later turned into a book, published Paris 1851, called Scènes de la Vie de Bohème. A book which Cedric somewhat daringly exposes in a dark corner of the highest shelf of the most secular of his study bookcases.
Is that, perhaps what he's thinking of when he first sees Amelia in today's episode of
- The MARDLINGHAM Saga - ![]()

There is a nice illustration to this book:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/bohem/tscenes.html
I had a look as I was sure I had heard of it and I don't like the works of Rosetti very much.