Poet. Pseudonym: “Bee.” Author identified from the*Chambers’s Journal* ledger entries
to the poems published on 30 November 1878 (“When I Was Seventeen!”) and 28 June 1879
(“Knitting”), where the poet is listed as “Miss Dill, of Dollar” (NLS Dep 341/371).
One other poem by “Bee” was published in in *Chambers’s Journal* (“My Wife,” on 23
November 1878) and ascribed to “Miss Reade” in the ledger, with no address given.
The relationship between Miss Reade and Miss Dill is unclear. (AC)