Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Alternative signatures: Miss Priest, Mrs. N. A. W. (Priest) Wakefield. From Royalton, Massachusetts. Née Priest. Married Lieutenant Arlington C. Wakefield in 1865. Most well-known for her poem Over the River, the title of her posthumous poetry volume that was published in 1883. Biographical information: Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography (1889), vol. 6, p. 318. (BGL, AC)