Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Pseudonym: F. C. W. Born in London. Son of Francis Weedon. Suffered from tuberculosis, which prevented his business venture. Moved to Ventnor in the Isle of Wight to convalesce, and then to his father’s house in London. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for his poem Cheerfulness, published on 8 October 1859, gives his address as 1 Farleigh Villas, Penbury Road, Lower Clapton (NLS 341/310). Biographical information: Memoir to Weedon’s Poems (1863), which is prefaced by a memoir; Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 489. (AC)