Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Born in Paddington, London. Father was the editor James Payn. Died unmarried in Falmouth, Cornwall. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Payn’s She Comes, published on 30 September 1893, refers to her as Miss M. Payn, of 43 Warrington Cres, Maida Vale (NLS Dep 341/370), which was her family home. Biographical information: Madeline Payn (1866-1939), Ancestry. (AC)