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Today's festive #Christmas DVPP poem: Christina Rossetti's "A Hope Carol," illustrated by Frederick Sandys (detail shown), from *Century Guild Hobby Horse*, April 1888.

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Introducing Mary Ellen Edwards (1838-1934): Victorian woman illustrator of periodical poems (examples here from *Once a Week* & *Atalanta*).

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Scottish weaver-poet William Thom was run over by a carriage at age 10 & became lame (the wealthy occupant gave 10s compensation). He worked as a weaver & itinerant flute player. He was desperately poor. (Poem from *Chambers's* 25 Dec 1841)

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Introducing new working-class poet: Peter Kier, watch maker from Falkirk, published this elegy for his son in *Chambers's* (19 Nov 1836). The editorial headnote introduces Kier as a "humble" poet from a "mechanical profession."

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