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Richard Rowe
1828–1879
An English author and journalist who also spent important years in colonial Australia, he wrote lively fiction, essays, and books for younger readers. His work moved between British and Australian literary worlds in the mid-19th century.
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The Boy in the Bush
by Richard Rowe
About the author
Born on 9 March 1828 in Doncaster, Richard Rowe was the son of a Wesleyan minister. He grew up in Colchester and Bath, later emigrated to Australia, and built a career as a journalist, tutor, and writer whose life connected England, Scotland, and Australia.
Rowe wrote for newspapers and magazines and published under the pseudonyms Charles Camden and Edward Howe. He is remembered as a versatile Victorian man of letters: a novelist, essayist, poet, and contributor to periodicals, as well as a writer of stories for younger readers.
He returned to Britain after his years in Australia and continued writing until his death in London on 9 December 1879. No confirmed portrait was easy to verify from the sources I found, but his reputation survives through his published work and biographical records in both British and Australian reference sources.