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Charles Rowcroft (1798, London – 1856), pastoralist and novelist, the son of Thomas Edward Rowcroft, a British consul in Peru. Rowcroft was educated at Eton, after which he went to Hobart Town, Australia, in 1821 and took up a grant of 2,000 acres (8 km²). He returned to England in 1826. In 1843 he published ''Tales of the Colonies'', followed by ''The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land'' (1846). Another of his novels, ''An Emigrant in Search of a Colony'' (1851), is also connected with Australia. ==References== * ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'', second edition, 1994, Oxford University Press. * (Australian Dictionary of Biography ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Rowcroft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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