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)