George Fyler Townsend
BiographyReverend George Fyler Townsend (1814–1900) is best known as the translator of the standard English edition of Aesop’s Fables. Although there are more modern collections and translations, Townsend’s volume of 300 fables introduced the practice of stating a succinct moral at the conclusion of each story, and continues to be influential. Several editions of his translation were published in his lifetime and others since. In 1860 Townsend also published a revised edition of The Arabian Nights. In 1872 Townsend published, under the auspices of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, a volume entitled The Sea Kings of the Mediterranean. This is an account of the Knights of Malta from their beginnings up to Townsend’s own time. Townsend also published The Town and Borough of Leominster, written about 1861 while he was vicar of Leominster in Herefordshire.
Bibliography
The Arabian Nights (translation, 1860)
The Town and Borough of Leominster (1861)
Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables (translation, 1867)
The Sea-Kings of the Mediterranean (1872)
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