Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, novelist, journalist, children’s writer, and ornithologist. Born in Gorleston, Suffolk. Daughter of William Gardiner. Publications include The Sound of a Voice. A Tale (1897), Sylvia in Flowerland (1899), Rare, Vanishing and List British Birds. Compiled from Notes by W. H. Hudson (1923). The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for “Long Ago,” published on 27 December 1884, refers to the author as Miss Linda Gardiner, and gives her address as Winchester (NLS Dep 341/369). Died in London, unmarried. Biographical information: At the Circulating Library; WorldCat; BL; 1881 and 1891 England Census, and England and Wales Probate Calendar (Ancestry). (AC)