Francis William Lauderdale Adams

From Philosopedia

Adams, Francis William Lauderdale (27 September 1862—4 September 1893)

An Australian poet, Adams wrote novels and poetry. A severe critic of Christianity but an ardent idealist, he wrote inMass of Christ and other of his works about “the bastard God” of the churches.

Learning he had tuberculosis, the English-born Adams resolved to speed his creative processes and from 1884 to 1890 he enjoyed the favorable press given him by the Australian radical press, becoming an influential social analyst and commentator, a radical nationalist and feminist.

During a massive tubercular hemorrhage at the age of 31, he shot himself in the mouth in front of, and perhaps with the help of, his devoted second wife Edith.

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