James Glass Bertram

Born in 1824, James Glass Bertram was a British author and journalist associated with Scotland. Sources describe him as having been apprenticed to Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, later working as a bookseller and newsagent, and eventually taking on editorial roles in the newspaper world.

He is said to have edited the North Briton from 1855 and the Glasgow News from 1872, before leaving newspaper office work to write as a freelance journalist. That varied path helps explain the range of his writing and the practical, observant tone often linked with nineteenth-century journalism.

Bertram died in 1892. Although he is not among the best-known Victorian writers today, his career offers a vivid glimpse of how closely publishing, journalism, and literary life were connected in his time.