The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Adams, Francis
Adams, Francis
(
1862
–
93
), novelist, poet, and journalist, born in Malta, and educated at Shrewsbury School and in Paris. He travelled to Australia in
1884
for health reasons (he was tubercular) and worked there successfully as a journalist, while publishing a collection of poems, Songs of the Army of the Night (
1888
). The Melbournians (
1892
) is a novella describing social and political life in Australia and the emerging sense of national identity; The Australians (
1893
) collects articles and essays on similar themes.
Adams
returned to England in
1890
, where he was to commit suicide. His novel, A Child of the Age, was published posthumously in
1894
by
John
Lane
in the Keynotes Series. It vividly describes the schooldays (at ‘Glastonbury’) and poverty-stricken struggles of would-be poet and scholar, young orphan Bertram Leicester, and is understandably suffused with a...
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