Sometimes identified only by occupation--with bylines such as "By a Police Constable," "By a Railway Surfaceman," or even "By a Working Man,"19 for example--the frequently anonymous or pseudonymous poets featured in Good Words collectively present themselves as periodical readers who are also writers.
(33) Macleod assigned Arthur Hughes, known for his appealing representations of childhood and the maternal, a poem entitled "The Mother and the Angel," by a writer identified only as "A Railway Surfaceman" (34) (fig.
However, Hughes's visualization of the poem by "A Railway Surfaceman" extends its discursive context by its interpictorial reference to a contemporary Pre-Raphaelite painting (and poem) addressing romantic, rather than maternal, love and death.