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Robert Samber (1682—c. 1745) was a British writer and translator. He is credited with the first English translation of the Mother Goose tales.

He is also the English translator of the Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault.

References

1. 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.)
2. See reprinted edition from Garland Publishing Co., 1977.

External links

• Works by Robert Samber at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Robert Samber at the Internet Archive

• British writers
• French–English translators
• 1682 births
• 1745 deaths
• 18th-century British translators