Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, travel writer, and children’s writer. Pseudonyms: “Aunt Louisa,” “L. V.,” and “G. L. H.” Née Jewry. Married Rev. Richard Valentine in 1853. Became the editor of Girl’s Home Book in 1877. The Chambers’s Journal Authors’ Ledger entry for Laura Valentine gives her address as St. Catherine’s Villa, St. Leonard’s on Sea, for an 1858 poem (NLS Dep 341/290). Biographical information: Curran Index; At the Circulating Library; Sutherland. (AC)