T. P.Born in Ambleside, Westmoreland. Daughter of the editor James Payn. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entries for her poems give her address as the family home, 43 Warrington Crescent, W [London] (NLS Dep 341/368). Although her name was Harriet, after Harriet Martineau, her family nickname was
Tiny.Died unmarried in Hertford, Hertfordshire. Biographical information: The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau: Letters 1863-1876, edited by Deborah Anna Logan, Pickering & Chatto, 2007, p. 105;
Harriet Frances Payn (1855-1900),Ancestry. (AC)
| Poem title | Date | Periodical | Roles | id # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Lullaby | 1876-07-01 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 7216 |
| Spring Showers | 1877-04-21 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 6873 |
| My Sweetheart | 1877-09-08 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 6883 |
| A Bachelor’s Apology | 1878-06-15 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 6961 |
| On a Sheet of Blank Paper | 1878-07-06 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 6964 |
| A Summer Requiem | 1879-10-11 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 7088 |
| Child Songs—The Little Prude | 1882-10-21 | Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal | Poet | 7524 |