Stewart lived in Melbourne during the 1890s and departed that city in November 1895. The National Library Manuscripts Collection notes: 'Novelist, playwright and poet, Hubert Stewart worked in Melbourne in the late 1800's. His poem 'Beaten Ways' was written on the Murray River. He made his way to the West in 1900, and then to the Eastern Goldfields, where he wrote 'Ungodly Man' in 1902, based on the area around Coolgardie.' (Libraries Australia record). E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 358 in a section on drama refers to 'Hubert Stewart, 1894, and Arthur Bateman, 1896, both of whom were breaking away from historical romances and opening up domestic and social fields for dramatic settings, ...'