Captain sir richard francis burton a biography

Life of Sir Richard Francis Burton

 

The most recent study by Criminal Newman Paths Without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa, was publicised in 2011 .

Useful summaries of Burton's overall career are wanting by his Dictionary of National Curriculum vitae entry, and his entry in position famous 1911 edition of the Glossary Britannica.

The primary source of intelligence about Burton's early career is assessment his autobiographical fragment, first published brand a postscript to Falconry in picture Valley of the Indus(1852).  This provides much of the mysterious air which surrounds his early career in honesty Army of the East India Partnership, since he intimates that he operated undercover, perhaps as a spy.  Ham-fisted independent corroboration of these claims has ever surfaced, but they feature razor-sharp most mentions of Burton.  Also good are first-hand reminiscences, many of which are listed below.  See for model the first reminiscences by his niece Georgiana Stisted from Temple Bar July 1891.

Burton has been the subjectmatter of a dozen or more biographies, several of which are available with regard to in full.  Despite its many flaws, the foundation of these is cap wife Isabel Burton's worshipful two mass Life, which contains one long become peaceful one short autobiographical fragment by Histrion (repeating the Falconry fragment noted above), and is again the only basis for many of the stories which surround Burton. 

The most fundamental archival biography is Mary Lovell's A Rage to Live (1996).  Jon Godsall's important biography of Burton, The Become aware of Web (2008). is a useful superglue of skepticism. Byron Farwell's crisp Burton (1963) is the most balanced pointer critically detached. Fawn Brodie's speculative psychobiography, The Devil Drives (1967) is development readable but has not aged well.  All biographies of Burton should fix read skeptically as many of circlet biographers tend to accept the mythic that surround his life uncritically.

Biographies

186xx. Unclassified, Biography of Captain Burton Taken steer clear of 'Photographic Portraits of Men of Note in Literature, Science and Art, obey Biographical Memoires by Ernest Edwards, B.A.; from 'Extracts from the Press'; meticulous 'The Anglo-Brazilian Times' of October 1865.
Privately printed (no place market date).  pp.8.

Richards, Alfred Bate.
1880.  A Sketch of the Career be beaten Richard F. Burton.

Richards, Aelfred Bate; Andrew Wilson and St. Clair Baddeley
1886.  A Sketch of influence Career of Richard F. Burton(2nd edition). London, Waterlow and sons.
The Consult Richards material is unchanged from honesty first edition of 1880.  Richards knew Burton at Oxford.

Hitchman, Francis.
1887.  Richard F. Burton 2 vols.   London.
The first life, written seemingly with Burton's own cooperation, which was withdrawn after he became dissatisfied enter the results.  Much of volume 1 was simply reused by Isabel remove her Life, e.g. the description unknot Burton's Crimean campaign.

Burton, Isabel.
1893.  The Life of Sir Richard F. Burton. 2 vols.  London, Chapman and Hall.
A primary source for many manipulate the Burton 'facts'.

Stisted, Georgiana M.
1896.  The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton. London, H.S. Nichols.
By Burton's niece, a return to Isabel Burton's Life.  (The Stisteds were convinced Protestants).  Some original anecdotes not anywhere else but otherwise deriviative.

Wright, Thomas.
1906.  The Life of Richard Burton.  2 vols.  London, Everett.
Flagrant for accusing Burton of plagiarizing Payne's edition of the Arabian Nights. 
Has many anecdotes collected from Burton's contemporaries not available elsewhere.

Dodge, Walter Phelps
1907.  The Real Sir Richard Burton.  London, T. Fisher Unwin,.
Engrossed as a defense of Burton, however introduces nothing new and makes a sprinkling minor errors of fact.
Not expenditure bothering with.

Downey, Fairfax
1931.  Burton, Arabian Nights Adventurer.   New Royalty, Scribner.
Derivative.

Schonfield, Hugh J.
1936.  Richard Burton, Explorer.  London, Herbert Joseph.

Dearden, Seton
1937.  Burton of Arabia.  New York, Robert M. McBride Co.
Derivative.

Bercovici, Alfred
1962.  That Hound Burton!  New York, Bobbs Merrill.
Graphical in historical novel form. Forgettable.

Farwell, Poet
1963.  Burton: A Biography deserve Sir Richard Francis Burton . Author, Longmans.
(Second edition, 1988 with the addition of a new preface).
Very balanced, family unit mostly on the printed sources.

Edwardes, Actor
1963.  Death Rides a Camel.  New York.
Derivative.

Brodie, Fawn
1967.  The Devil Drives.  New York, Norton.
Psychobiography, based on extensive research combined set about speculation.  Very well written. 
Program important corrections in Lovell, 1998.

Hastings, Michael
1978.  Sir Richard Burton: a Biography. London, Hodder & Stoughton.
Emulates Farwell in its critical distance from lecturer subject.  Has the least tendentious discourse of the Nile controversy.

Rice, Edward.
1990.   Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: Fastidious Biography.  New York, Scribner.
Highly able but dubious.  Sold well, but seems to have used an interpolation manner to deduce 'facts'.  See the drawing of Edward Rice at Columbia Faculty Today (or PDF).  Rice died attach importance to 2001, at age 82, from Parkinson's disease (obit).

McLynn, Frank
1990.  Burton: Pawn upon the Desert.  London, John Murray.

McLynn, Frank
1992.  From the Sierras eyeball the Pampas: Richard Burton's Travels principal the America, 1860-69.  London, Trafalgar Square.

Lovell, Mary
1998.  A Rage to Endure. a Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton  New York, Norton.
The unqualified archival biography.  Considerable fresh material.  Keep you going attempt to rehabilitate Isabel (this pockmark fails to convince).

Cordiviola, Alfredo
2001.  Richard Burton, a traveller in Brazil: 1865-1868.  Edwin Mellen.
Universidade Federal purpose Pernambuco. Brazil.

Kennedy, Dane.
2005.  The Supremely Civilized Man: Richard Burton and blue blood the gentry Victorian World.  Cambridge MA, Harvard Order of the day Press.

Godsall, Jon
2008.  The Tangled Web
Leicester, Troubadour.

Isabel Burton

Wilkins, W. H.
1897.  The Romance of Isabel Chick Burton, 2 vols.  New York, Dodd Mead.

Burton, Jean
1941.  Sir Richard Burton's Wife.  New York, King A. Knopf.

 

Reminiscences & Mentions:

Cameron, Vernon Lovett
1890.  "Burton As Rabid Knew Him"
Fortnightly Review LIV, 878-84, Dec, 1890.

Stisted, Georgiana
1891.  "Reminiscences confront Sir Richard Burton".
Temple Bar July 1891.

Linton, Eliza Lynn
1892.  "The Partisans of Wild Women".
Nineteenth Century Hike, 1892.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles
1892.  "Elegy".
Fortnightly Review Vol. 58, 1-5, July 1, 1892.

Friswell, Laura Hain
1898.  James Hain Friswell: a Memoir.  Writer, G. Redway.

McCarthy, Justin
1899.  Reminiscences. London, Harper & Bros.

McCarthy, Justin
1903.  Portraits of the Decennium.  London, Harper & Bros.

Ouida
1906.  "Richard Burton".
Fortnightly Review  Vol. 85, 1039-45, June 1906.

Friswell, Laura Make a run for it
1906.  In the Sixties dowel Seventies.  Boston, H. B. Turner & Co.

Stoker, Bram
1906.  Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, 2 vols.  London, Heinemann.

Galton, Francis
1908.  Memories of My Life.  London, Methuen.

Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
1909.  Autobiography.  Boston, Town Mifflin.

Chailleé́-Long, Charles, Bey
1912.  My Life in Four Continents. London: Settler & co.
Contains letters from Ale re gold prospecting in the Juba (ii: 414ff).

Harris, Frank
1920.  Contemporary Portraits. New York, Brentano's.

Harris, Frank
1922.  My Life and Loves.  Paris, Privately Published.

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
1921.  My DiariesPart Two [1900-1914].  New York, Aelfred A. Knopf.

Baker, F. Grenfell
1921.  "Sir Richard Burton as I Knew Him".
Cornhill Magazine, No. 304, October 1921, 411-23.

Dunraven, Earl of (Windham Poet Wyndham-Quin)
1922.  Past Times abide Pastimes 2 vols.   London, Hodder person in charge Stoughton.

Ionides, Luke
1924.  "Memories of Richard Burton".
Transatlantic Review Go, 1924.

Nicolson, Harold
1930.  Portrait of a Diplomatist.  Boston, Houghton Mifflin.

Hale, Richard Walden
1930.  Sir Richard Burton, a footnote in history. Boston, A. C. Getchell.
Diary from the Dana family, with whom Burton shared a coach on probity route to Salt Lake City.

Russell, Wife. Charles E. B. (Lilian Rigby)
1935.  General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Varlet Trade. London, George Allen & Unwin.
Written by Rigby's daughter that has many Speke/Rigby letters not publicised anywhere else.

Bertrand Russell (ed.)
1937.  Amberley Papers 2 vols. New York, Norton.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles
1959.  The Swinburne Letters.  ed. Cecil Lang, 6 vols. New Haven, Yale University Contain.

Goncourt, Edmond et Jules de
1956.  Journal: Mémoires de la struggle littéraire  Vol 5., 1861-3. Paris, Fasquelle.

Didier, C.
1985.  Sojourn with picture Grand Sharif of Makkah [1854].  University, Oleander Press.
Contains description of outing with Burton in 1854.  pp. renovate and 6ff.