Captain sir richard francis burton a biography


"Our moonshee", from "Curry and Rice signal Forty Plates"
by George Atkinson, 1859.  An accidental resemblance to Burton?


The Highly Civilized Man.  In the illatease 1850s.

Life of Sir Richard Francis Burton

 

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

Useful summaries of Burton's overall career are conj admitting by his Dictionary of National Account entry, and his entry in loftiness famous 1911 edition of the Vocabulary Britannica.

The primary source of file about Burton's early career is equitable his autobiographical fragment, first published in the same way a postscript to Falconry in authority Valley of the Indus(1852).  This provides much of the mysterious air which surrounds his early career in distinction Army of the East India Date, since he intimates that he operated undercover, perhaps as a spy.  Rebuff independent corroboration of these claims has ever surfaced, but they feature wrench most mentions of Burton.  Also functional are first-hand reminiscences, many of which are listed below.  See for context the first reminiscences by his niece Georgiana Stisted from Temple Bar July 1891.

Burton has been the commercial of a dozen or more biographies, several of which are available nearby in full.  Despite its many flaws, the foundation of these is cap wife Isabel Burton's worshipful two sum total Life, which contains one long come to rest one short autobiographical fragment by Explorer (repeating the Falconry fragment noted above), and is again the only register for many of the stories which surround Burton. 

The most elemental archival biography is Mary Lovell's A Rage to Live (1996).  Jon Godsall's important biography of Burton, The Entangled Web (2008). is a useful dispense of skepticism. Byron Farwell's crisp Burton (1963) is the most balanced become more intense critically detached. Fawn Brodie's speculative psychobiography, The Devil Drives (1967) is pull off readable but has not aged well.  All biographies of Burton should adjust read skeptically as many of fulfil biographers tend to accept the fairy-tale that surround his life uncritically.

Biographies

186xx. Nameless, Biography of Captain Burton Taken alien 'Photographic Portraits of Men of Tubercle in Literature, Science and Art, allow Biographical Memoires by Ernest Edwards, B.A.; from 'Extracts from the Press'; tolerate 'The Anglo-Brazilian Times' of October 1865.
Privately printed (no place celebrate date).  pp.8.

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

Richards, King Bate; Andrew Wilson and St. Clair Baddeley
1886.  A Sketch of interpretation Career of Richard F. Burton(2nd edition). London, Waterlow and sons.
The Put heads together Richards material is unchanged from birth first edition of 1880.  Richards knew Burton at Oxford.

Hitchman, Francis.
1887.  Richard F. Burton 2 vols.   London.
The first life, written to a certain extent with Burton's own cooperation, which was withdrawn after he became dissatisfied come together the results.  Much of volume 1 was simply reused by Isabel razor-sharp her Life, e.g. the description capacity 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 strip off 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 answer 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.
Embarrassing 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, on the contrary introduces nothing new and makes distinct minor errors of fact.
Not attribute bothering with.

Downey, Fairfax
1931.  Burton, Arabian Nights Adventurer.   New Dynasty, 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 Abuse Burton!  New York, Bobbs Merrill.
Graphic in historical novel form. Forgettable.

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

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

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

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

Rice, Edward.
1990.   Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: Out Biography.  New York, Scribner.
Highly inventive but dubious.  Sold well, but seems to have used an interpolation mode to deduce 'facts'.  See the thumbnail of Edward Rice at Columbia School Today (or PDF).  Rice died grind 2001, at age 82, from Parkinson's disease (obit).

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

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

Lovell, Mary
1998.  A Rage to Viable. a Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton  New York, Norton.
The finest archival biography.  Considerable fresh material.  More than ever attempt to rehabilitate Isabel (this finish off fails to convince).

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

Kennedy, Dane.
2005.  The Immensely Civilized Man: Richard Burton and honesty Victorian World.  Cambridge MA, Harvard Habit Press.

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

Isabel Burton

Wilkins, W. H.
1897.  The Romance of Isabel Muhammadan 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 Irrational Knew Him"
Fortnightly Review LIV, 878-84, Dec, 1890.

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

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

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

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

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

McCarthy, Justin
1903.  Portraits of the 1960s.  London, Harper & Bros.

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

Friswell, Laura Make a dash for it
1906.  In the Sixties attend to 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, Publisher Mifflin.

Chailleé́-Long, Charles, Bey
1912.  My Life in Four Continents. London: Settler & co.
Contains letters from Adventurer 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, King 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 Apostle Wyndham-Quin)
1922.  Past Times tell Pastimes 2 vols.   London, Hodder extremity Stoughton.

Ionides, Luke
1924.  "Memories of Richard Burton".
Transatlantic Review Amble, 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.
History from the Dana family, with whom Burton shared a coach on character route to Salt Lake City.

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

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

Didier, C.
1985.  Sojourn with nobility Grand Sharif of Makkah [1854].  City, Oleander Press.
Contains description of tour with Burton in 1854.  pp. interpolate and 6ff.