How interesting! I searched through every page on Trove looking for poems, assuming that Charles's work must've been published somewhere if the brief notice of his death referred to it. In the end, only the two I mentioned in the story seemed to fit. I hadn't considered that he may have reviewed other poetry books. It's certainly a possibility it was him! It also matches with the timeline. If you find anything more about Charles, please let me know.
I have been researching Charles Walker myself, as part of a book I am writing, and only just found your article. Being drawn from many of the same sources, your article mirrors mine in many ways, but I hadn't gone down the alley of conjecture regarding the nom de plumes in the Inquirer. That phrase "a rage for verse making, which found vent in the advertising columns of this journal" does justify a good trawl! There must be several interesting leads - but oh! What a rabbit hole that could be. Check out "The New Poet" on 26th March 1856 - I can't read the by-line - is it Anon? This could easily have been written by Charles, don't you think?
Very good story 👍sad that he died so young 😢
Very sad. There’s probably more to his story than what we’ll ever know. Thanks for reading, Sandra.
Yep👍
How interesting! I searched through every page on Trove looking for poems, assuming that Charles's work must've been published somewhere if the brief notice of his death referred to it. In the end, only the two I mentioned in the story seemed to fit. I hadn't considered that he may have reviewed other poetry books. It's certainly a possibility it was him! It also matches with the timeline. If you find anything more about Charles, please let me know.
I have been researching Charles Walker myself, as part of a book I am writing, and only just found your article. Being drawn from many of the same sources, your article mirrors mine in many ways, but I hadn't gone down the alley of conjecture regarding the nom de plumes in the Inquirer. That phrase "a rage for verse making, which found vent in the advertising columns of this journal" does justify a good trawl! There must be several interesting leads - but oh! What a rabbit hole that could be. Check out "The New Poet" on 26th March 1856 - I can't read the by-line - is it Anon? This could easily have been written by Charles, don't you think?