Edward Fitzgerald

(1809-1883)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883 NRA: Fitzgerald Edward (1809-1883) Poet and Translator DNB: FitzGerald [formerly Purcell], Edward (1809–1883), writer and translator LBT ID: EdFitzg1883 VIAF ID: 59091022 LOC ID: n80126218	B/BAP: 1809-03-31 DIED: 1883-06-14
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Originally Purcell; educated at Bury St Edmunds and Trinity College, Cambridge, he rose to fame as the translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859).
REFERENCES TO Edward Fitzgerald: Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 1 Letters: 1824 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 5 Letters: 1825 Found 1: ¶ 5 Letters: 1827 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 6 Letters: 1830 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1831 Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 1