casualties

This page considers authors, performers and other creators who died destitute.

It covers -

• introduction
• writers
• artists
• composers

     introduction

The preceding page highlighted 'success stories': creators who did well or achieved a measure of financial security through luck (eg inheritance or marriage) and their own efforts. It did not identify 'casualties': creators whose talent was stifled by poverty and financial insecurity or creators who died destitute.

     writers

Henry Carey (1687–1743)

Richard Savage (1698-1743)

Theodore Hook (1788–1841)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

Richard Horne (1802-1884) 

Jane 'Speranza' Wilde (1821–1896)

Paul Dresser (1857-1906)

Frederick Rolfe (1860-1913)

Robert Walser (1878-1956)

Henry Lawson (1867-1922)

     artists

William Buelow Gould (1801-1853)

Eugen von Guerard (1812-1901)

Samuel Thomas Gill (1818-1880)

William Friese-Greene (1855-1921)

     performers

Ervin Nyiregyhazi (1903-1987)

     composers

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