Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, office clerk, commercial traveller. Alternative signature: L. J. Nicolson. Termed The Bard of Thule. Born in Lerwick, Shetland. After his father’s death, when he was eleven years old, he moved with his family to Dalkeith, Midlothian. Author of Songs of Thule (1894). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 353; North Isles Family History <https://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I13189&tree=ID1> (4 July 2019). (AC)