Poet, travel writer, and children’s writer. Pseudonyms: “Aunt Louisa,” “L. V.,” and
“G. L. H.” 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)