Meg Tasker

About The Author

Dr Meg Tasker is an Associate Professor in Literature at the Federation University in Ballarat. Her publications include Struggle and Storm: The Life and Death of Francis Adams; Francis Adams: A Research Guide; an edition of Francis Adams's John Webb's End; and entries on Adams for The 1890s: An Encyclopaedia of British Literature, Art and Culture, The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vol. 3 and the New Dictionary of National Biography.

Books by Meg Tasker

Struggle and Storm

The Life and Death of Francis Adams

By Meg Tasker
Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862-1893)—poet, novelist, social analyst and journalist—made a significant place for himself in Australian literary and cultural history. Born in England, he was a self-consciously modern writer of the fin de siècle; the theme of suicide figured frequently in hi...
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