Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Novelist, poet, and editor. Alternative signature: B. Aikin. Born in London. Worked as a governess for various families around the United Kingdom. Contributed to Family Herald. Opened a school in her home with her sisters for local and Anglo-Indian children. Editor of Court Suburb Magazine (1868–1870). Founded a Sunday School for poor children and was a secretary at a school for working-class girls. Author of the anti-suffragist pamphlet Pro Aris et Focis: The True Rights of Women (1869). Never married. Acquainted with Samuel Carter Hall and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Biographical information: ODNB. (CC)