Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, journalist, essayist, composer, and novelist. Pseudonym: Gerald Cumberland. Trained as a musician and wrote music criticism for the Daily Critic. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for In a London Garret, published on 14 April 1900, lists Kenyon’s address as Westminster House, Ellesmere Park, Eccles (NLS Dep 341/371). Author of the biography Hall Caine: The Man and the Novelist (1901), a music book for beginners How to Memorize Music. With Numerous Musical Examples (1905), as well as several volumes of poetry and novels under his pseudonym from 1919 to 1927. Biographical information: BL; ​Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Cumberland (3 May 2021). (AC, CC, SP)