Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Born in Wolverhampton. Father, William Dent, was a solicitor. Unmarried. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Dent’s The Story of a Year, published on 28 December 1889, refers to the author as Miss J. C. Dent, of Codsall House, Wolverhampton (NLS Dep 341/370). Biographical information: 1851, 1871, 1881, 1891 England Census, England & Wales Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 (Ancestry). (AC)