Payn, Harriet F. (“Tiny”) (F)

Surname: Payn
Forename(s): Harriet F. (“Tiny”)
b. 1855. d. 16 January 1900. Nationality: English.
Poet. Pseudonym: “T. P.” Born in Ambleside, Westmoreland. Daughter of the editor James Payn. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entries for her poems give her address as the family home, 43 Warrington Crescent, W [London] (NLS Dep 341/368). Although her name was Harriet, after Harriet Martineau, her family nickname was “Tiny.” Died unmarried in Hertford, Hertfordshire. Biographical information: The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau: Letters 1863-1876, edited by Deborah Anna Logan, Pickering & Chatto, 2007, p. 105; “Harriet Frances Payn (1855-1900),” Ancestry. (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 7
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
A Lullaby 1876-07-01 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7216
Spring Showers 1877-04-21 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6873
My Sweetheart 1877-09-08 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6883
A Bachelor’s Apology 1878-06-15 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6961
On a Sheet of Blank Paper 1878-07-06 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6964
A Summer Requiem 1879-10-11 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7088
Child Songs—The Little Prude 1882-10-21 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7524