Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, social reformer, and editor. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Author of four volumes of poetry including Footprints of Life (1857), Rhymes with Good Reason (1870-1), A Scholar’s Day-Dream (1870, 1881), and A Household Queen (1881). Published pamphlets on issues of unemployment and labour, including Our Unemployed (1867), Lancashire Labour and the London Poor (1871), Impediments to the Circulation of Labour (1873), The Unemployed in Great Cities (1877), and Vagrancy (1881). Edited Labour News (which he founded in 1871), The Industrial Handbook (starting in 1877), and Statutes for the People (1870-1). Oversaw the publication of The Industrial Index to London and Business Aspects of Ladies’ Work. Biographical Information: ODNB. (DD)