This international person is included in AustLit to identify a relationship with Australian literature.
Born: Established: 3 Jul 1831 Edinburgh,
Edmund Yates is included in AustLit because his work work was produced in the Australian colonies during the colonial era; is published (in part or in full), advertised or reviewed in Australian colonial newspapers and magazines; and/or is the subject of Australian literary comment, adaptation or creative writing.
For further information, see: P. D. Edwards, ‘Yates, Edmund Hodgson (1831–1894)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30188, accessed 17 April 2014]