Poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Author information from the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for “My Baby’s Lullaby,” published on 20 February 1869, which lists
the author as Miss Humphreys, London (NLS Dep 341/310). The ledger entry for her essay
“Babies by the Day,” published on 6 March 1869, gives her address as 20 Westbourne
Park Road, Bayswater, W (NLS Dep 341/310). (AC)