Frederic Shoberl

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Frederic Shoberl

1775–1853

Best known for editing the pioneering literary annual Forget-Me-Not and for bringing Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame into English, this busy man of letters moved easily between journalism, translation, illustration, and publishing. His career offers a lively glimpse of the early 19th-century reading world.

2 Audiobooks

Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Immediately Before, During, and Subsequent to, the Sanguinary Series of Engagements Between the Allied Armies of the French, from the 14th to the 19th October, 1813

Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Immediately Before, During, and Subsequent to, the Sanguinary Series of Engagements Between the Allied Armies of the French, from the 14th to the 19th October, 1813

by Frederic Shoberl

Austria containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character and Costumes of the People of that Empire

Austria containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character and Costumes of the People of that Empire

by Frederic Shoberl

About the author

Born in London in 1775 and educated at the Moravian school at Fulneck near Leeds, Frederic Shoberl built a remarkably varied literary career. He worked as a journalist, editor, translator, writer, and illustrator, and became one of the energetic figures behind the fast-changing print culture of his time.

He is especially remembered for editing Forget-Me-Not, widely described as the first English literary annual, launched for 1823. That success helped shape a popular new kind of gift book filled with literature and illustration, and it tied his name to the fashionable reading habits of the period.

Shoberl also translated major European works for English readers, including Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Alongside editing and translation, he produced travel and descriptive writing and remained active in publishing for many years. He died on March 5, 1853.