Poet. Pseudonym: “Ida Mary Forde.” Author information from the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for “Chrysanthemums,” signed Ida Mary Forde, which gives the author
as Miss Bradford, of 5 Montague Terrace, Richmond, Surrey (NLS Dep 341/369). Ancestry gives the Bradford family resident at 5 Montague Terrace, Richmond, from the 1881
England Census, with daughters Emily, Julia, and Teresa resident. Presumably the poet
is one of these women. (AC)