Henry Dawson Lowry

Henry Dawson Lowry (22 February 1869 – 21 October 1906) was an English journalist, short story writer, novelist and poet.

Lowry was born at Truro, as the eldest son of Thomas Shaw Lowry, bank clerk at Truro, afterwards bank manager at Camborne, by his wife Winifred Dawson of Redhill.Catherine Amy Dawson Scott was his cousin. Educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and then at the University of Oxford (unattached to a particular Oxford college) with B.A. in chemistry in 1891. In 1891 his Cornish stories were accepted by W. E. Henley for publication in the National Observer. In 1893 Lowry took up residence in London and wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette, becoming a staff member in 1895. He then was on the staff of Black and White from 1895 to 1897. Early in 1897 he became the editor of the Ludgate Magazine and later in the year joined the staff of the Morning Post. He wrote under the pseudonym "The Impenitent" for the Daily Express and occasionally contributed to other newspapers and magazines.

His cousin Catherine Amy Dawson Scott, who did some editing of his poetry, used text by Lowry adaptating one of her own novels (The Haunting, 1921) into the libretto for the opera Gale by Ethel Leginska, which premiered in Chicago at the Civic Opera House, with John Charles Thomas in the lead, on November 23, 1935.

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