Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Prominent journalist, poet, translator, author. Alternative signature: G. B. Stuart. Born in Harrow Weald, Middlesex. Baptised 31 July 1853. Father was Charles James Fife Stuart. Lived in London (1881 England Census records her living at 17 Cheyne Walk with her mother and sisters). Never married. Regularly contributed to the London Athenaeum (reporting on the press) and the Daily News (working as a special correspondent for Germany). Involved in the International Press Congress and the British Institute of Journalists. Publications include A Road-Book to Old Chelsea (1914). Biographical information: Deborah Chambers, Linda Steiner, and Carole Fleming, Women and Journalism (Routledge, 2004), p. 125; Hilary Fraser, Stephanie Green, and Judith Johnston, Gender and the Victorian Periodical Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 41; Ancestry (22 February 2024). (AC)