Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and illustrator. Alternative signature: O. Herford. Born in Sheffield but spent childhood in the Chicago and Boston where his father served as a Unitarian minister. Educated at Antioch College, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Slade School in London. Contributor to Harper’s Weekly, Ladies’ Home Journal, and St. Nicholas. Poetry volumes include Jingles from Japan and Other Rhymes by Peter Simple (1891) and Sea Legs and the Deb’s Dictionary (1906). Biographical information: ANB. (SCM)