1818 - 1898
Joseph Jenkins Welsh Writer
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| First Name |
Joseph
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| Last Name |
Jenkins
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| Birthday |
27th February, 1818
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| Died |
26th September, 1898
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| Zodiac Sign |
Pisces
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| Nationality |
Welsh
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| Occupation |
Writer
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Joseph Jenkins (27 February 1818 – 26 September 1898), was an educated tenant farmer from Tregaron, Ceredigion, mid-Wales who, when aged over 50, suddenly deserted his home and large family to seek his fortune in Australia. The Australian Dictionary of Biography says that "Jenkins's noteworthiness stemmed from the rich documentation of his experiences and thoughts that has survived". He was a consistent diarist for 58 years of his life and a consistent if not outstanding poet, under the bardic name Amnon II. He achieved fame posthumously from publication of some excerpts of his Australian writings. The compiler, his grandson Dr William Evans, a Harley Street cardiologist, coined the title Diary of a Welsh Swagman by which name he is familiar to generations of Victorian school students for whom the book became a prescribed history text in 1978.
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