Poet. Pseudonym: “S. E. T.” From Manchester. Member of the Manchester Field-Naturalists
and Archaeologists’ Society. Married Joseph Tonkin in 1855. Contributed to *One and
All*. Author of *Rostherne Mere and Other Poems* (1866). *Chambers’s Journal* ledger
entry for the poem “To a Blackbird,” published on 13 March 1880, gives the author
as Mrs S. E. Tonkin, of Langford Road, Heaton Chapel, near Manchester (NLS Dep 341/369).
Biographical information: *Report and Proceedings of the Manchester Field Naturalists’
and Archaeologists’ Society for the Year 1898*, vol. 39, 1899; Chas. F. Foreshaw,
editor, *Pearls of Poesy: A Biographical Birthday Book of Popular Poets of the Period
at the time of the Coronation of King George and Queen Mary*, 1911, p. 184. (AC, CC)