Struggle and Storm The Life and Death of Francis Adams

Biography of Francis Adams (1862-1893), a poet, novelist, social analyst and journalist who moved to Australia from England in 1884. Describes his connection with Australian social and political developments in the years leading up to Federation in his role as spokesman for the Australian nationalism of the 1890s. Explores the pleasures of biography and the problem of how to write a literary life a hundred years later. Author is a senior lecturer in literature at the University of Ballarat. Previous titles include 'Francis Adams: A research guide' and an edition of Francis Adams's 'John Webb's End'.

Dr Meg Tasker is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Ballarat. Her publications include Francis Adams: A Research Guide; an edition of Francis Adams's John Webb's End; and entries on Adams for The 1890s: An Encyclopaedia of British Literature, Art and Culture; The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vol. 3; and the New Dictionary of National Biography.