Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay)

HenryAustin Dobson, commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist.

Hisofficial career was uneventful, but as a poet and biographer he wasdistinguished.

Those who study his work are struck by its maturity.

It wasabout 1864 that he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse,and some of his earliest work was his best.