Yorkshire poet, playwright, and novelist. Pseudonym: “W. D. F.” *Chambers’s Journal*
ledger entries for Foster’s poems “To a Cherry Blossom” and “Perfection,” published
on 24 July 1886 and 23 November 1889, list his address as Park House, Selby (NLS Dep
341/369, 370). Author of several volumes of poetry including *The Fallen City, and
Other Poems* (1892), *The Legend of Lohengrin, and Other Poems* (1894). Additional
biographical information: Reilly, *Late Victorian Poetry*, p. 171; “Will Foster Archive,”
University of Leeds Library <https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7305/will_foster_archive>
(22 April 2020). (AC)