- Born
- 1859
Hamilton, Victoria, Australia - Alternative Names
- Hilarion (pseudonym)
Summary
McKellar was born in Hamilton, Victoria, and little is known of his early life. He published his first collection of short stories, The Premier's Secret and Other Tales in 1887. In the early 1890s he wrote numerous historical romance novels set in Britain and Europe under the pseudonym Hilarion, often prefacing them with lengthy dedications to members of the aristocracy. A second volume of short stories Grafin Rinsky and Other Tales was published in 1892, and McKellar's series of monologues and one-act dramas were collected in The Old Stradivari and Other Dramatic Sketches in 1894. The Premier's Secret and Other Tales was his only work to be published in Australia.