Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Deaf poet, editor, and journalist. Pseudonym: “Howard Glyndon.” Née Redden. Educated at St. Louis Missouri Institution for Deaf Mutes. Prolific periodical poet. Assistant editor of *St. Louis Presbyterian* (1857-1858). Civil War correspondent for *St. Louis Republican*, then foreign correspondent for the *Republican*, *New York Sun*, and *New York Times* (mainly in France and Italy). Married Edward W. Searing in 1876. Publications include *Idyls of Battle and Poems of the Rebellion* (1864), *Sounds from the Secret Chambers* (1873), *El Dorado* (1897). Biographical information: *ANB*. (AC)