Surname: Heraud Forename(s): John Abraham b. 5 July 1799. d. 20 April 1887. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Contributed to a variety of periodicals, including Quarterly Review, Chambers’s, Temple Bar, Belgravia. Assistant editor of Fraser’s Magazine (1830-33). Edited Sunbeam (1838-39), Monthly Magazine and British Register (1839-42), and possibly Christian’s Monthly Magazine (1844-46). Drama critic for The Athenaeum (1843-68) and The Illustrated London News (1849-80). Author of poem-epics The Descent into Hell (1830, expanded 1835) and The Judgement of the Flood (1834). Wrote a verse tragedy, Videna (1854), as well as other plays. Biographical information: Lohrli 299; Waterloo Directory; ODNB.