Surname: Webb Forename(s): Anna Nationality: Irish.
Poet. Pseudonym: “A. D. L.,” “A. W. R.” Nationality presumed from address. Author
information from the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for her poem “One Less” (published on 19 March 1859), which gives the
poet as Mrs Anna Webb, of Dunville Avenue, Dublin, and her poem “Castle Walls” (published
on 22 October 1859), which lists her address as 8 Dunsville [sic] Avenue, Dublin (NLS
341/310). According to Thom’s Directory of Ireland (1851), William Webb, a woollen draper, lived at 8 Dunville Avenue, P. St. Peter,
Dublin (p. 939). (AC)