The Valentine Lady Jane Maria Strachey Strachey, Jane Maria Blue Jay Illustrator Arthur Hopkins Hopkins, Arthur Metadata research and editing DVPP Project Team University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project Victoria, BC, Canada

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 Poet attribution: Blue Jay is the pseudonym of Jane Maria Strachey. (AC) Atalanta 1 5 238–239 A boy sat in the branching oak Corrected and proofed figure, figDesc, and @ana keywords. Added figure and figDesc. Re-organized change elements in descending date order. Removed catRef with target="dvpp:illustrationNone", now obsolete.
A boy and a girl embrace while prancing in a woodland clearing. The children are topless and wear skirts composed of leaves. Both children hold quivers on their backs; the straps are slung diagonally over their shoulders and chests. The child on the left holds an enlarged bunch of flowers in the air. The child on the right holds a bow. Arrows are visible in the second child’s quiver. There are tree roots in the foreground and large trees in the distance. The branches form a canopy over the children. Full-page illustration.