Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and novelist. Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire. Travelled on business to the West Indies to try to become a merchant like his father, but returned to Scotland and became a clerk in a factory and a bank. Married Janet Coxon. Moved to London and became the author of several novels including The Black Watch, published posthumously. Corresponded with William Godwin, Bryan Waller Procter, and John Galt. Biographical information: ODNB ; Eva-Marie Kröller, Nineteenth-Century Canadians and the Rhine Valley, Gaining Ground: European Critics on Canadian Literature, edited by Robert Kroetsch and Reingard M. Nischik, vol. vi, Western Canadian Literary Documents, series edited by Shirley Neuman, NeWest Press, 1985, p. 237. (CC)