Alfred Henry Miles
Alfred Henry Miles was a prolific Victorian-era English writer – including as an anthologist, children's writer, editor, journalist, and poet – as well as a composer and lecturer.
He published hundreds of works on a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry, warfare to household encyclopaedias with information for every conceivable contingency, and even advice to the lovelorn.
He was Guardian of the Poor for six years and a member of the London Borough of Lewisham from 1904 to 1906.
He was editor of the Fifty-Two Library, a series of children's adventure stories published by Hutchinson & Co., London in the 19th century. He compiled some fifty volumes that appeared at five shillings apiece.
Selected books
- The Fifty-Two Library
- The Poets and Poetry of the Century
- The Universal Natural History, with Anecdotes Illustrating the Nature, Habits, Manners and Customs of Animals, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, etc., etc. edited by Alfred H. Miles, New York : Dodd, Mead and Co., 1895
- Successful Recitations
- Log Leaves and Sailing Orders
- Edward Hayes Plumptre to Selwyn Image: The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century
- Christina G. Rossetti to Katharine Tynan
- Drawing Room Entertainments
- Ballads of Brave Women
- A Book of Brave Girls at Home and Abroad
- A Book of Brave Boys All the World Over
- The First Favourite Reciter
- Original Poems, Ballads, and Tales in Verse
- The Sweep of the Sword
- Twixt Life and Death Opon Sea and Shore
- Heroines of the Home and the World of Duty
- A Garland of Verse for Young People
- The Diner's-Out Vade Mecum
- A Book of Brave Boys
- Heroes of History
Poetry
"John Bull and His Island"