Richard Francis Burton

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Standard Name: Burton, Richard Francis
Used Form: Sir Richard F. Burton
Victorian explorer and diplomat RFB published more than forty volumes of travel writing, as well as folklore and poetry. He is best remembered for his translations of erotic works.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Henry Handel Richardson
The child Ethel Richardson was a great reader. She identified with male fictional characters, and cherished three books which her father gave her almost on his death-bed: The Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan , Robinson Crusoe...
Friends, Associates Algernon Charles Swinburne
In May 1861, he met Richard Monckton Milnes , who introduced him to the works of the marquis de Sade . Soon after this he met another important influence on his life, the explorer and...
Friends, Associates Ouida
Aside from her mother, Ouida kept mainly male company. Her circle included (in addition to her publishers William Harrison Ainsworth and William Tinsley ) A. C. Swinburne , Richard Monckton Milnes (famed for his large...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Anne Barker
In fact her writing personality is clearly discernible here. She makes exploration at second hand as vivid as she did her own travels as she constructs her record of the perseverance and energy of brave...

Timeline

1868: James Africanus Beale Horton published at...

Building item

1868

James Africanus Beale Horton published at LondonWest African Countries and Peoples, British and Native, and A Vindication of the African Race, analysing the conditions required to establish self-government for his people.
Edwards, Paul. “Black Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”. The Black Presence in English Literature, edited by David Dabydeen and David Dabydeen, Manchester University Press, 1985, pp. 50-67.
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Texts

Arabian Nights. Translator Burton, Richard Francis, Printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only, 1886, 10 vols.
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. Translator Burton, Richard Francis, Forgotten Books, 2008, 16 vols.
Burton, Richard Francis. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856, 3 vols.
Vatsyayana,. The Kama Sutra. Translator Burton, Richard Francis, Printed for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, for private circulation only, 1883.
al-Nafzawi, ’Umar ibn Muhammad. The Perfumed Garden. Translator Burton, Richard Francis, Printed by the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, for private circulation only, 1886.