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Also writes as: Stebii; A Hawkesbury Boy (2 works); The Clerk of the Weather (2 works); The Recorder (1 work); Truth in Season (1 work); Anti-State-Phlebotomy (1 work); A Spirit of the Past (1 work); An Australian (3 works); Not Tom Campbell (1 work); No Wool-Gatherer (1 work); Orr, Bill (1 work); No 'Minion of the Moon' (1 work); Australicus (1 work); A Squatter of the First Water (1 work)
Born: 23 Jan 1813 Windsor, New South Wales
Died: 10 Jun 1868 Eurobodalla, New South Wales
Gender: Male
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Charles Harpur was born to emancipist parents and was educated at the Government School at Parramatta. He worked erratically at a number of jobs, including teaching and farming, and was, for a time, assistant gold commissioner at Araluen. He married Mary Doyle, the subject of his love sonnets, in 1850. In 1867 his second son, Charles, was killed in a shooting accident, compounding his despair after devastating floods destroyed his farm at Eurobodalla. Harpur died in 1868 from tuberculosis. Heedi....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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3 Mar 2010