E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 314 comments: 'Doubtful Australian author. Recorded in Serle's Bibliography.' It seems likely that this Stephens is English on the basis of the total body of publications by him listed in the COPAC union catalog of British libraries. There were two Australian soldiers in the First World War with the name William Henry Stephens.
(Source: Australian War Memorial. First World War Nominal Roll).
