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Rolf Boldrewood was the pseudonym sometimes used by the Australian poet and novelist Thomas Alexander Browne. His most famous book, Robbery Under Arms, which was published using the name Boldrewood, was a story set in 19th century Australia about renegade bushrangers who go about their business stealing cattle and committing armed robbery. It has been described by critics as one of the ...
Ronald Allison Kells Mason was a 20th century New Zealand poet who usually abbreviated his long name, for the purposes of identifying his work, to R A K Mason. Fellow poet, and also journalist, Allen Curnow gave Mason the accolade of: “New Zealand"s first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet”. He was born on the 10th January 1905 in Penrose, Auckland. His father, who made perfume, met an untimely ...
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon was a 19th century Canadian poet and novelist who was one of the first Anglo-Canadian writers to become successful both amongst the English and French speaking elements of her country. She was born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins on the 12th January 1829 in Montreal. Her upbringing was comfortable, being the daughter of a wealthy merchant of Irish-Catholic origin. She was sent to be ...
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop was an American poet and social worker who dedicated her life to the Catholic church, becoming a nun and then calling herself Mother Mary Alphonsa. For her achievements in the care of cancer sufferers she received a number of awards and, in 2003, she was canonised by the Cardinal Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York. From then on she ...
Roderic Quinn was an Australian poet and newspaper editor who modestly described himself as “a pleasant minor poet”. He was known for his genuine courtesy and deference to his fellow man. Fellow writer Norman Lindsay said of him: “….he was a kindly man, for I never heard him say anything depreciative of others, either their works of their personalities”. He never married throughout ...
Richard Rolle, also often called Richard Rolle de Hampole, was a 14th century English mystical writer and composer of devotional prose that was mostly for the benefit of women readers. He was a hermit for most of his lifetime, originally from the northern part of the county of Yorkshire until eventually settling close to Hampole Cistercian nunnery in the southern area of the county. A number of ...
Richard Rowe was an English-born writer, tutor and journalist who emigrated to New South Wales, Australia when in his mid-20s. He was born on the 9th March 1828 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, the son of a Wesleyan minister. Unfortunately his father died while Richard was still an infant and the family moved south to the Essex town of Colchester. At the age of 25 ...
Richard Savage was an 18th century English poet and writer of tragi-comedy plays whose historical details are, unusually, mostly known from the contents of a biography written about him by Samuel Johnson, which he called Life of Mr Richard Savage. This book was published in 1744, a year after the subject’s death. Naturally though, one should view Johnson’s observations with a little ...
Richard Watson Dixon was an English poet and Wesleyan minister of the 19th century. He was born on the 5th May 1833 in the London borough of Islington, the son of a notable Wesleyan preacher of the time called Dr James Dixon. His parents sent him to be educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, whose headmaster was the eminent Anglican minister Dr Gifford. ...
Richard Watson Gilder was an American poet, newspaper editor and private soldier in the Unionist army during the Civil War. Many of his poems featured artistic themes such as the theatre, music and art although he did write a great deal of material describing his wartime experiences. He had the honour of having one of his most famous war poems, The Dead ...
