Possible Clues:

• The ant got me back and encountered Robert
• It's up to me to have encountered a patriot
• Hanged Irish patriot
• Tourist's novel, short and in French
• Insect we maybe meet in Minehead?
• Austen heroine half satisfied to become a six-footer
• Son from Rhineland town bumped into tourist in Cornwall
• Tourist mass encountered, going to one end of England
• Ant, once
• The patriotic ant met me up