Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Pseudonym: “V. C. H.” Alternative signature: “V. Craigie Halkett,” “V. M. Craigie Halkett.” Born in the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire. Father was Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Halkett-Craigie. Lived in Devon from at least 1891. Taught at a private school in Lahill, Exeter, in 1911. Married Rev. John Thomas Nosworthy in 1912. Chambers’s Journal ledger entries list her address as Lahill, Exeter (poems published 23 September 1899 and 15 December 1900; NLS Dep 341/371). Author of A Child’s Rhymes, Written Between the Age of Six and Thirteen (1887). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 206; “Violet Mary Craigie Halkett (1873-1947),” Ancestry. (AC)