Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Novelist and poet. Alternative signature: H. A. Morrah. Born in Winchester, Hampshire. Son of James A. Morrah. Educated at Highgate School and St. John’s College, Oxford. Editor of The Literary Year Book. Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (1914-1919). Author of fiction titles A Serious Comedy (1896), The Faithful City: A Romance (1897), and The Optimist: A Novel (1898), as well as a volume of poetry, In College Groves, and other Oxford verses (1894). Biographical information: At The Circulating Library; Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 337. (BGL)