author
H. S. (Hannah S.) Battersby
d. 1886
A 19th-century poet whose work lingers on home, faith, memory, and everyday feeling, she wrote with a warm, reflective voice. Her best-known surviving book, Home Lyrics, was issued in a second volume after her death.
1 Audiobook
Home Lyrics: A Book of Poems
by H. S. (Hannah S.) Battersby
About the author
H. S. Battersby, identified in library and Project Gutenberg records as Hannah S. Battersby, is known for Home Lyrics: A Book of Poems. Catalog and ebook records show the work in an earlier edition and in a second volume published in Toronto in 1887.
The poems associated with her name focus on domestic life, remembrance, moral reflection, nature, and grief. That gives her work the intimate, heartfelt tone often found in late 19th-century verse written for family reading and quiet personal enjoyment.
The bibliographic trail suggests that the second volume of Home Lyrics appeared after her death, which fits the date note "d. 1886." I wasn't able to confirm many additional biographical details from reliable online sources, so her life story remains only lightly documented in the records I found.