The Poor Man’s Darling. A Tale of Hard Times

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Metadata

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 8:412, 736, 18 November 1871.

First line

Why did you leave me, Asthore Machree?

Authorship

Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Fanny Forrester was paid £1 1s for the poem, with no address given (NLS Dep 341/368). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 6799

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