Edward FitzGerald (poet)
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Edward FitzGerald or Fitzgerald was an English poet and writer. His most famous poem is the first and best-known English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which has kept its reputation and
Portrait by Eva Rivett-Carnac (after a photograph of 1873)
Grave of Edward FitzGerald in Boulge churchyard
Title page from the first American edition of FitzGerald's translation, 1878
Bredfield House
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Bredfield House was a now-demolished country house situated in the village of Bredfield, around 2 miles north of Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. It was a Jacobean building and was tradit
Edward FitzGerald (poet)
…of Omar Khayyam, which has kept its reputation and popularity since the 1860s. Edward FitzGerald was born into an Irish family as Edward Purcell at Bredfield House in Bredfield, some two miles north of Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, in 1809. In 1818, his Irish father, John Purcell, assumed the name and arms of his…
The White House, Bredfield postcard circa 1905