5 Jul 2008
Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)

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> In After Days> The Forgotten Grave
> A Garden Song
> On The Future Of Poetry
> The Paradox of Time
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Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921) was born in Plymouth, England, the son of a civil engineer. At the age of 16 he entered the Board of Trade to begin a career in the Civil Service that would eventually see him rise to the level of Principal in the Harbour Department, before retiring at the age of 61 in 1901. He married Frances Mary at the age of twenty-eight; having started to write properly at about the age of twenty-four. His first volume of work entitled 'The Prodigals' appeared in 1876, with a second in 1877; and a steady stream of work until his death.
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