Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Pseudonym: F. E. S. Sister of Kate E. Spence. Married Charles Edward Stuart Shaw in 1896. Author information from Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for the poem The Stray Blossom, published on 6 September 1884, which lists the poet as Miss F. E. Spence, of Forest Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne (NLS Dep 341/369). Biographical information: Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215658177/florence-edith-shaw (20 February 2022). (AC, CC)