Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, song writer, translator, and hostess. Lived in Duntrane, near Dundee. Known for her personations, where she “mystified” her friends (such as Francis Jeffrey, editor of the Edinburgh Review) by disguising herself as someone else to play a joke on them, which she wrote about in Mystifications (1859). Biographical information: Miss Stirling Graham, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, 2 February 1878, pp. 65-8; Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementina_Stirling_Graham (27 January 2020). (AC)