Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and (from 1861) invalid. Lived in Islington, London. Alternative signature: Elizabeth F. A. Rowbotham. Author of Harps of Zion: A Collection of Poems (1875). The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Rowbotham’s poem, published on 27 October 1883, lists her as Miss E. Rowbotham, of 14 Wellington St, Islington, N. (NLS Dep 341/369). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 400. (AC, CC)