Author:John Ormsby

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John Ormsby
(1829–1895)
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British translator. Renowned for his 1885 English translation of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha, perhaps the most scholarly and accurate English translation of the novel up to that time

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "J. O."

Works

  • "Hints for Vagabonds" in Fraser's Magazine (October 1858) (external scan)

As translator

Contributions to the DNB

Works about Ormsby

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