Robert Samber
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Robert Samber (1682—c. 1745) was a British writer and translator.[1] He is credited with the first English translation of the Mother Goose tales.[2]
He is also the English translator of the Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault.
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- ^ Blom, J.; Blom, F. "Samber, Robert (bap. 1682, d. c. 1745), writer and translator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69872. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ See reprinted edition from Garland Publishing Co., 1977.
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