J. B. S.,
J. B. Selkirk.From a family of woollen manufacturers in Selkirk, Scotland. Educated at Selkirk Grammar School and the Edinburgh Institute, and then worked for the family business until its closure in 1870. Author of Poems (1883) and Poems (1896). Contributed essays on poetry to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Journal and The Cornhill Magazine. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entries for Brown’s poems published on 18 December 1886, 1 April 1888, and 26 March 1888, give his address as Thornfield, Falkirk (NLS Dep 341/369). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 68; Wellesley Index. (AC)
| Poem title | Date | Periodical | Roles | id # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prithee Madam | 1882-09-30 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 7521 |
| Selkirk After Flodden. (A Widow’s Dirge, October 1513) | 1885-11 | Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine | Poet | 8831 |
| The Two Seas | 1886-12-18 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 13011 |
| Love’s Exchanges | 1887-06-11 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 12903 |
| “Till Death Do Us Part” | 1888-04-01 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 13026 |
| The Daughter | 1888-05-26 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 13033 |
| A Farewell Proposal | 1889-04 | Atalanta | Poet | 1886 |
| Looking Back in Yarrow. A Golden Wedding | 1889-10 | Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine | Poet | 8523 |
| Saint Mary’s Lake (Yarrow) | 1895-11 | Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine | Poet | 8106 |
| At the Fall of the Curtain | 1898-07 | Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine | Poet | 8014 |
| Outward-Bound | 1898-08-06 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 12722 |