Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and journalist. Born c. 1851. The Chambers’s Journal Authors’ Book entry for Dean’s poem “The Ruined Abbey” (published 3 September 1891) gives his address as Dennistoun (NLS Dep 341/294), the east end of Glasgow. A member of the Glasgow Ballad Club, according to Ballads and Poems, third series (1908). Reilly notes that he lived in Tweedside. Author of Harp Strums (1890), and worked for the Kelso Chronicle and the Glasgow Evening Citizen. Biographical information: obituary, Newspaper World and Advertising Review, 1930, p. 59; Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 131. (AC)