Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and novelist. Lived at Hooley Hill, Audenshaw, Lancashire. Author of Wildings from the Field of Song (1879). In the Preface to this volume, Barstow states he is twenty-three years old, which is the basis for his birthdate. This poet should not to be confused with Charles H. Barstow (-1908), the American poet. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entries for his poems list his address as 41 Nicholls St, Hyde Rd, Manchester (poem published 23 August 1884; NLS Dep 341/369), 72 Mornington St, Stockport Rd, Manchester (poem published 19 April 1890; NLS Dep 341/370), and 37 Milton St, Stockport Road, Manchester (poem published 27 June 1896; NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 31; At the Circulating Library. (AC)