Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, childen’s author (especially of nursery rhymes), parliamentary reporter, and journalist. Pseudonyms: “Matthew Browne,” “Henry Holbeach,” and “T. Talker.” Auto-didact. Part of the staff of the Illustrated Times. Contributed to many journals, including St. Pauls Magazine, Good Words for the Young, The Argosy, the Contemporary Review, Saturday Journal, Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Pall Mall Gazette, and The Spectator. Helped found The Citizen in 1878. Author of The Chain of Lilies (1857), Lilliput Levee (1868, illustrated by J. E. Millais and G. J. Pinwell), Lilliput Revels (1871), Lilliput Legends (1872). Biographical information: ODNB. (JS)