Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, short story writer, linguist, essayist, translator, musician, socialist, and private tutor. Alternative signature: “J. J. Haldane Burgess.” Born and lived in Lerwick, Shetland. Blind from 1887, and wrote with a typewriter designed for the blind. Educated at Anderson Educational Institute, Shetland, and then at the University of Edinburgh (graduating 1889). Edited The Shetlander. Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 76; Archives Hub <https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/d64ad3e7-c96c-369b-b4b8-b949b9fb6064> (3 July 2019). (AC)