Author: Harvey, W. C.
Biography:
HARVEY, W. C. (fl 1817-19)
Because his name is a fairly common one and because he published using only his initials, it has been impossible to find reliable public records about his life. His major work, the poetry collection of 1818, ends with an elegy for Princess Charlotte, who had died in childbirth in 1817, and was dedicated with permission to her grieving husband, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg. (The elegy, “The Grave of Hope,” was issued simultaneously as a separate publication.) It is dated from 1 York Place, Pentonville, London, but a periodical contribution of June 1819 has an address on Norfolk St., Strand, London. A few poems appeared under his name in the Morning Post and Morning Herald in those years, and although the GM review of Sensibility complained at length about “morbid whining,” he contributed a poem there three months later. (GM Mar. 1819, 235-7 and June 1819, 562-3; Morning Post 17 Jan. 1818; Morning Herald 9 Nov. 1818; SJC 15 Jan. 1818)