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George Henry Borrow

Male : Author and Traveller who had an ear for languages. Became agent of the British & Foreign Bible Society. Married Mary Clarke in 1840
Nationality : English Place of Birth : East Dereham, Norfolk

Date of Birth : 1803 Date of Death : 1881 Age : 78

Education : Norwich GS
1825-1830
(Ed) Celebrated Trials and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence
(1825 for Knight & Lacey, London) - 6 vols
Life and Adventures of the Famous Captain Blood
(c1825 London)
[Usually attributed to Borrow]
(Trans) F M von Klinger : Faustus - His Life, Death and Descent into Hell
(1825 Simpkin Marshall)
Tales of the Wild and Wonderful
(1825 Hurst Robinson, London) - Anon
[Authorship of this book is uncertain but thought to be Borrow]
(Trans) Romantic Ballads, translated from the Danish (1826 S Wilkin, Norwich)
(1913 Jarrold, Norwich) - 300

1831-1850
(Trans) Targum, or Metrical Translations from 30 Languages and Dialects
(1835 Ptd by Schultze & Beneze)
(Trans) Alexander Pushkin : The Talisman (1835 Ptd by Schultze & Beneze)
New Testament
(Luke) in Romani (1837)
The Zincali, or an Account of the Gypsies of Spain
(1841 Murray 18/-) - 2 vols
(1842 Wiley & Putnam) - 2 vols
The Bible in Spain, or the Journeys, Adventures & Imprisonment of an Englishman
(1843 John Murray 27/-) - 3 vols

1851-1900
Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, & The Priest
(1851 John Murray 30/-) - 3 vols. 3000
(1914 Foulis) - Edmund J Sullivan
(1926 Peter Davies) - Edmund J Sullivan
(1926 Houghton Mifflin) - Harold Brett
(1936 Ltd Editions Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Barnett Freedman 2 vols
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The Romany Rye
(1857 John Murray) - 2 vols. 1000
(Trans) The Sleeping Bard, or Visions of the World, Death & Hell (1860 PP by J M Denew)
Wild Wales : Its People, Language & Scenery
(1862 John Murray) - 3 vols
(1865 Murray. 2nd Ed)
Romano Lavo-Lil : Word Book of the Romany or English Gypsy Languauge
(1874 Murray)
(Trans) Hoca Nasreddin : The Turkish Jester (1884 Webber) - 150
(Trans) Johannes Ewald : The Death of Balder (1889 Jarrold) - 250

1901 Onwards
Letters of George Borrow to the British & Foreign Bible Society
(1911 Hodder & Stoughton) - Edited by T H Darlow
Letters to His Wife, Mary Borrow
(1913 PP)
Letters to His Mother, Ann Borrow & Other Correspondents
(1913 PP)
Collected Works : Norwich Edition Edited by Clement Shorter
(1923-4 Constable) - 16 vols
A Journey to Eastern Europe in 1844 : 13 Letters
(1981 Tragara Press, Edinburgh) - 140

READING
William Knapp : The Life, Writings & Correspondence of George Borrow
(1899 Murray) - 2 vols
R A J Walling : George Borrow - The Man & His Work
(1908 Cassell)
Herbert Jenkins : The Life of George Borrow
(1912 John Murray)
Edward Thomas : George Borrow - The Man and His Books
(1912 Chapman & Hall) (1912 Dutton NY)
Clement King Shorter : George Borrow & His Circle
(1913 Hodder & Stoughton)
T J Wise : A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose & Verse of George Borrow
(1914 for Private Circulation) - 100
Seton Dearden : The Gypsy gentleman - A Study of George Borrow
(1939 A Barker & John Murray)
Martin D Armstrong : George Borrow
(1950 Arthur Barker)
Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald : Gypsy Borrow
(1953 Dennis Dobson)
T J Wise : A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose & Verse of George Borrow
(1966 Dawsons Pall Mall, London)
Michael Collie : George Borrow, Eccentric
(1982 Cambridge UP)
Michael Collie & Angus Fraser : George Borrow - A Bibliographical Study
(1984 St Paul's Press)

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