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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