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Kinahan Cornwallis (writer)
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Kinahan Cornwallis (né Albert McKenzie Russell Kinahan; 1837–1917) was a British / American poet, writer, editor, and lawyer.
From his marriage certificates, it appears that Cornwallis's father was William Baxter Kinahan and his mother Elizabeth, but his early life is not well-documented. Biographers have unquestioningly accepted Cornwallis's writings as factual when they are questionable at best. A volume titled My Life and Adventuires; An Autobiography is a work of fiction. He appears to have been born in London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and attended school in Liverpool. He states that he had studied for the ministry and medicine before leaving England for Australia. On his arrival in Melbourne, Australia in 1853 (when his age is stated as 32) he sought employment as a clerk in a mercantile house and by July had been named as a customs clerk in the colonial government. He later claimed continued employment in the British Colonial Civil Service but this is doubtful. Cornwallis spent two years in Australia and claimed to have visited the Philippines, Singapore, Ceylon, Egypt, Japan, Africa, South America, Canada, and the United States over the next five years but these claims are suspect. Books in 1858 and 1859 on travels to British Columbia and Japan have been shown to have been largely plagiarized and there is doubt that he visited either country. He was back in England in 1856.
His first published work was Yarra Yarra or Tales of a Traveller, a lengthy poetry work which appeared in England under his true name in 1856 and which received largely negative reviews both in England and in Australia. Later editions of this volume and all his subsequent writings bore the name Kinahan Cornwallis which he used for the remainder of his life. Between 1857 and 1862 he produced four novels, several of which appeared in multi volumes. These included Howard Plunkett, or Adrift in Life, The Crossticks; or, A Medley in the Gittens Family, Wreck and Ruin: or, Modern Society and Pilgrims of Fashion : A Novel.
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