Henry William Dulcken (1832-1894) was an English translator and children's writer, best known for translating the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. Many of his books for children were illustrated by the Brothers Dalziel. Described as a "jobbing editor", he was sometimes hired to provide text for the pictures of others, such as Arthur Boyd Houghton.
Dulcken also translated Wilhelm Hey's hymn Can you count the stars?.
Works
Translations
The little drummer, or, Filial affection : a story of the Russian campaign by Gustav Nieritz. Translated from the German 1852. Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy by Ida Pfeiffer. Translated from the German 1852. The Book of German Songs: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. 1856. Ollendorff's new and easy method of learning the German language by Heinrich Godefroy Ollendorff. Translated from the French 1858. Picture Fables drawn by O. Speckter, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, with rhymes translated from the German of F. H. [Wilhelm Hey] by H. W. Dulcken. 1858 The last travels of Ida Pfeiffer : inclusive of a visit to Madagascar: with an autobiographical memoir of the author, London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1861. Stories and Tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Translated from the Danish. London, 1864. What the moon saw, and other tales by Hans Christian Andersen. 1865 Stories for the household by Hans Christian Andersen. 1866. Out of the heart: spoken to the little ones by Hans Christian Andersen. Translated from the Danish. London : Routledge, 1867. The goloshes of fortune and other stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1869 The marsh king's daughter and other stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1869. Poultry Meg's family, and other stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1869 New light on dark Africa: being the narrative of the German Emin Pasha expedition, its journeyings and adventures among the native tribes of eastern equatorial Africa, the Gallas, Massais, Wasukuma, etc., etc., on the Lake Baringo and the Victoria Nyanza by Karl Peters. Translated from the German Die deutsche Emin-Pascha Expedition. London, New York, Melbourne: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891.