FRANCIS, W.L. ADAMS BIOGRAPHY

ADAMS, FRANCIS, W.L. (1862-1893). —Novelist, was born at Malta, and ed. at schools at Shrewsbury and in Paris. In 1882 he went to Australia, and was on the staff of The Sydney Bulletin . In 1884 he publ. his autobiographical novel, Leicester , and in 1888 Songs of the Army of the Night , which created a sensation in Sydney. His remaining important work is Tiberius (1894), a striking drama in which a new view of the character of the Emperor is presented. He d. by his own hand at Alexandria in a fit of depression caused by hopeless illness.