Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Born 1860 or 1861. From Dublin. Father was Michael James Sweetman, and her mother the heiress Margaret Sweetman (née Powell). Ran two family magazines with her sisters Mary (later Mary Bundell, pseudonym M. E. Francis) and Agnes (later Agnes Castle), who also became writers. Family moved to Brussels in 1873 after her father’s death. Published in periodicals including Irish Monthly. Author of Footsteps of the Gods, and Other Poems (1893), Pastorals, and Other Poems (1899). Biographical information: Reilly, Late-Victorian Poetry, p. 460; Blundell, Mary, DIB; Colman 211-12, VIAF. (AC)