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About Fred J. Broomfield
- Frederick John Broomfield (2 April 1860 – 22 May 1941), known as Fred, was English-born Australian writer, friend of Australian writer Henry Lawson and prominent co-member with him of the Dawn and Dusk Club which formed around poet Victor Daley; some meetings were held in his Darlinghurst home.
- Before coming to Sydney in the 1880s, where he gained employment as an accountant, Broomfield worked for the Kyneton (Victoria) Guardian and as a correspondent for the Melbourne Age. Flamboyant, bohemian Broomfield was a contributor to The Bulletin and at one time worked there as a sub-editor.
- Tradition has it that it was Broomfield who accepted Henry Lawson's first Bulletin contribution.
- He defended Lawson in Henry Lawson and his Critics (1930).
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