Poet. Pseudonym: “R. G. D.” Author information from *Chambers’s Journal* ledger entries
for “In Vain” and “Last Words,” published on 25 August 1888 and 19 October 1889, which
list the poet as Mrs Daman, of Eton College, Windsor, Bucks (NLS Dep 341/370). Daman
may have been the wife of Rev. Henry Daman, who is listed as an Eton College resident
in *Kelly’s Directory of Berkshire, Bucks and Oxon*, Kelly & Co., 1883, p. 325. (AC)