Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, hymn writer, and children’s writer. Née Fletcher. Born at Norwich. Married Rev. R. Massey in 1865. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for her poem, published on 7 September 1872, gives her address as Marston St, Oxford (NLS Dep 341/368). The entry for her poem published on 23 May 1874 gives her address as Croughton, Northampton (NLS Dep 341/368). And the “Names and Addresses of Principal Journal Contributors” lists her name as L. L. Massey (NLS Dep 341/373). Author of Thoughts from a Girl’s Life (1864) and Songs of the Noontide Rest (1875). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 306; hymnary.org https://hymnary.org/person/Massey_L2 (16 January 2020). (AC)