Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet. Daughter of Cornwell Baron-Wilson and Margaret Harries. Friend of George Augustus Sala. Contributed to Household Words. Governess in St. Petersburg, Russia (1850-1854 and 1856-1858). Lived in British Columbia, Canada (1862-1871); she initially had a stationary shop in Victoria, then moved to the Cariboo where she married Samuel B. Tompkins, and finally kept a saloon in Barkerville. By 1875 she was living in California. After Tompkins died she married James Austin Hopkins. Died in San Francisco. Author of Lyrics for Leisure Hours (1842) and Boudoir Lyrics (1844). Biographical information: Curran Index; Lohrli, p. 470; Florence Margaret Wilson, Ancestry (1 January 2020). (AC)