Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Pseudonym: “Francis Annesley.” Née Voysey. Born in Hessle, Yorkshire. Married the lawyer John William Brodie-Innes in 1879. Chambers’s Journal ledger entries to poems by Francis Annesley list the poet as Miss Brodie Innes (poem published 10 March 1900; NLS Dep 341/371) and Mrs Brodie Innes (poems published 9 March 1901, 8 June 1901, 7 December 1901; NLS Dep 341/371), with the address given as 15 Royal Circle, Edinburgh. Presumably the “Miss” is in error (her daughter was born in 1885). John William Brodie-Innes also lived at this address in 1897; see Royal Blue Book: Fashionable Directory, and Parliamentary Guide, Kelly & Co. Limited, 1897, p. 632. He was a leading member of Edinburgh’s temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Brodie-Innes (6 April 2020). Biographical information: WikiTree <https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Voysey-42> (10 December 2021). (AC)