Author: BOWICK, James
Biography:
BOWICK, James (1801-29: BAM)
Schoolmaster and newspaper editor. He was born at Montrose and died at Arbroath on 20 Feb. 1829. Little is known of him, but he was the editor of the Montrose Review, which printed both of his books. The preface to The Genuis of Poetry indicates a subscription publication but no subscribers’ list is included. Characters, Sketches, and Other Poems was later updated and issued as Montrose Characters Past and Present (Montrose, 1880). (BAM) SR
Books written (2):
Montrose: printed for the author at the "Review" newspaper office, 1818
Montrose: printed at The Review office by John Mitchell, 1824