Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, playwright, and school teacher. Pseudonym: The White Rose. Born in Glasgow. Educated at Hutcheson’s Grammar School and the University of Glasgow. Taught at Kilbain Academy, Greenock. Poetry volumes include In Glasgow Streets, and Other Poems (1898). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 25; Modern Scottish Poets, thirteenth series, D. H. Edwards, 1890, pp. 234-5; Archives Hub https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/3be41fc9-9dcf-319a-8e78-c33ceb02c184 (14 December 2019). The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for his poem The Moor Loch, published on 3 March 1900, lists his address as 11 Carnarvon St, Glasgow (NLS Dep 341/371).(AC)