Alfred Richard Allinson

Alfred Richard Allinson was a nineteenth and twentieth century British academic, author, and voluminous translator of non-English literature (mostly French) into English. He attended Oxford University, from which he took a Master of Arts degree.

Allinson particularly specialized in translating the works of Anatole France and Alexandre Dumas, and his primary importance to literature is in introducing many of their works to a broad English audience. His translations were often published as by A. R. Allinson, Alfred R. Allinson or Alfred Allinson.

He also wrote a work on French costume of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.

Selected bibliography of translated works

Works of Anatole France

• The Aspirations of Jean Servien
• The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard)
• The Garden of Epicurus
• The Gods Are A-Thirst (Les Dieux ont Soif)
• The Human Tragedy (L'Humaine Tragedie)
• The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche, and Child Life in Town and Country
• The Path of Glory
• The Well of Saint Clare

Works of Alexandre Dumas

• The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires)
• Twenty Years After (Vingt Ans Après)
• The Two Dianas
• The Vicomte de Bragelonne (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard)
• The Wolf-Leader ('Le Meneur de loups)

Works of other authors

• The Sword and Womankind, by Edouard de Beaumont
• Satanism and witchcraft, a study in medieval superstition, by Jules Michelet
• The Satyricon, by Petronius
• Passion and criminality in France : a legal and literary study, by Louis Proal
• Forty-five years of my life (1770 to 1815), by the Princess Louise of Prussia (Princess Anton Radziwill)