Frank Hutchinson Frank Hutchinson i(A51051 works by) (a.k.a. F. Hutchinson)
Also writes as: A. Fogey ; F. H.
Born: Established: ca. 1836
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
; Died: Ceased: Apr 1916 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Frank Hutchison was a Sydney journalist and poet. During the 1860s, he was one of the anonymous contributors to the Sydney Punch, publishing attacks on and parodies of Henry Kendall and Charles Harpur. On discovering the identity of his detractor, Kendall wrote in a letter to Harpur on 18 May 1867, 'The writer "A. Fogey" is a miserably bitter poetling of the name of Hutchinson. For the last three years he has scarcely let a week pass without a wretched attack on me in "Punch".' (Correspondence ML C1199).

By 1871, Hutchinson was editor of the Wagga Wagga Advertiser, and the following year he wrote the libretto for The Butcher-Baronet, the first literary response to the Tichborne Case. After his return to Sydney, Hutchinson wrote for the Evening News, and subsequently worked on the Fairfax papers The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Mail, and the Echo, while also contributing to the Sydney University Magazine. Hutchinson's writing for the Sydney newspapers in the 1880s included literary criticism and book reviews. With Francis Myers, Huchinson published The Australian Contingent: A History of the Patriotic Movement in New South Wales and an Account of the Despatch of Troops to the Assistance of the Imperial Forces in the Soudan (1885). In 1896, Hutchinson edited the official production New South Wales: 'The Mother Colony of the Australias', to which he also contributed the chapter on 'Literature and Art' (pp. 305-11).

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