Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Pseudonym: “M. L. P.” Mother of playwright St. John Emile Clavering Hankin. Married Charles Wright Hankin. The Chambers’s Journal Authors’ Ledger entry for Mary Louisa Perralt gives an address of 3 Wolseley Terrace, Cheltenham (NLS Dep 341/290). Published poems in Light, a spiritualist magazine. Author of Year by Year (1892). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 209; “St John Emile Clavering Hankin,” ODNB; 1891 England Census, England and Wales National Probate Calendar (Ancestry). (AC, CC)