Family Name:

Oldys

First Name:

Alexander

Birth Date:

1634

Death Date:

1706

Personal info:

Career Translator, novelist and poet.
Financial Situation In 1682 he was in the midst of very poor financial circumstances. On this, see: Steven Moore, The Novel. An Alternative History, 1600-1800 (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), 613.

Translations

Original Title	Translation title	Author
Avantures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse, ou Suite du Quatrième Livre de l'Odyssée d'Homère	The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses translated from the French	François Fénelon

Other Works

Title	Publication Year	Publisher
The Fair Extravagant; Or, the Humorous Bride: An English Novel	1682	C. Blount
The Female Gallant, or, The Wife's the Cuckhold. A Novel	1692	Samuel Briscoe
An Ode, by way of Elegy, on the universally lamented Death of the incomparable Mr. Dryden	1700

In 1699 Oldys translated Fénelon's Télémaque.

“Alexander Oldys”, in English Poetry 1579-1830: Spenser and the Tradition, online edition

See also the notes on Oldys' other writing activities.

Avantures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse, ou Suite du Quatrième Livre de l'Odyssée d'Homère
Translation Title: The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses translated from the French
Original Author: François Fénelon

Original title: Avantures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse, ou Suite du Quatrième Livre de l'Odyssée d'Homère
Publ. Year From: 1698 to: 1698
lang: French

Translation: The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses translated from the French
Publisher: Awnsham and John Churchill
Pub. Place: London
Pub. Date: 1698
Lang: English
Note:
Télémaque was co-translated by Isaac Littlebury, Alexander Oldys and Abel Boyer. Churchill brothers had originally engaged Littlebury but because of health problems he only translated the First Book (out of five). Boyer and Oldys were thus also engaged and this messy approach, and above all the ‘carelessness’ of the printers, made the reprints of the edition very shoddy (on this, see: Abel Boyer, 'Advertisement Concerning this English Version', in [François Fénelon], The Adventures of Telemachus. The son of Ulysses [...], London: W. Churchill, 1719), I, vii-x).

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