Morley Charles Roberts (1857-1942) was an English novelist and short story writer. In 1876 he took a steerage passage to Australia, spending three years mostly on sheep stations, before returning to London. For a time he worked in the war office and other government departments. He later travelled a great deal. He used his experiences freely in his books, the first being The Western Avernus (1887). Of his novels, Rachel Marr (1903) was highly praised by William Henry Hudson, and The Private Life of Henry Maitland (1912), based on the life of George Gissing the novelist, was possibly his best known book. Roberts also wrote essays, biography, drama and verse, and did some competent work in biology. Approximately 80 of Roberts' books are recorded in Miller's Australian Literature. He was only a few years in Australia, but there are many Australian references both in his novels and his short stories. Amongst his other works are: In Low Relief (1890), Land-Travel and Sea-Faring (1891),...

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