Category:Philip Stewart Robinson

Philip Stewart Robinson (1849-1902) wrote more than 23 humorous works on Indian natural history. His writing reflected the society of his birthplace, Chunar, North-West Province, India. Robinson was not only a writer of natural history, however. His work as a journalist pushed him to travel the world. In 1878-9, he left his young wife, Elizabeth King, his son, and his daughter to go abroad with his work. Robinson was involved in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and in the Anglo-Zulu Wars as correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, as special commissioner of the New York World, he travelled the United States, and through the mid- to late 188s, he went to Egypt, Sudan, back to the United States, and on to Australia with various other journals. Robinson's travels came to an end after he fell ill from imprisonment in Cuba working at first of the Pall Mall Gazette and then for the Associated Press during the Spanish-American War. He died in 1902, having left a long line of whimsical and adventurous writing trailing around the world behind him.^[1]

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Submitted by: Gardner, Olivia: section 1, Fall 2013