J. R. Lockeyear J. R. Lockeyear i(A44382 works by)
Also writes as: J. R. L.
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Lockeyear would appear to be a Melbourne writer who had moved to South Australia by the 1890s, publishing a number of novellas and also stories for children, both in the Australian Journal and other (Victorian) journals, and as booklets. The best-known of these, a children's story, Mr Bunyip, or, Mary Somerville's Ramble (1871) was reprinted twice. In another publication, Bachelor's Hall (1894), Lockeyear says that he has 're-read [Mr Bunyip] in fifty State Schools on behalf of the Adelaide Children's Hospital'.

Other works by Lockeyear which are listed in his booklets, but not so far traced, include 'Wooing for Wealth', 'Katie, or, The Thorn in the Flesh', 'George the Foundryman, or, The Flaw in the Diamond', and 'Christmas in Our Bark Hut'.

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