Richard Rowe (writer)

[1] Rowe came to the Colony of New South Wales in 1853; by 1857 he was working on the Month and The Sydney Morning Herald sometimes using the pseudonym 'A Sassenach Settler'.

[1] In 1858 his Peter 'Possum's Portfolio was published in Sydney by Jacob Richard Clarke, a volume of prose and verse dedicated to his benefactor Nicol Drysdale Stenhouse.

The prose included a short novel, Arthur Owen--An Autobiography, and most of the verse consisted of translations.

He belonged to a circle of writers which included Frank Fowler, William Wilkes and Sheridan Moore.

[1] Rowe returned to England, wrote for the newspapers and magazines, and was also the author of several books for young people, some of which did not appear until after his death on 9 December 1879 in Middlesex Hospital.