Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, hymn writer, and novelist. Pseudonym: F. C. A. From Colloony, Country Sligo. Daughter of Dr. William Armstrong. Author of The King in His Beauty, and Other Hymns (1875), The Sunny South (1880), Sisters of Phaeton (1890). Author information from the Chambers’s Journal ledgers, which in the entry for Nestlings (published on 25 June 1881) gives her name as Miss Armstrong and address as Strangford House, Strangford, Co. Down (NLS Dep 341/369). The entry for Wages (published on 30 July 1881) has her address as Vicarage, Castlerock, Londonderry (NLS Dep 341/369). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 15; Colman 33-4. (AC)