The Poetry of John Lucas Tupper

John Lucas Tupper was born at some point between 1823 and 1824, there are no more precise details recorded. The family business was that of printers and stationers. His father, George Frederic Tupper, who was trained as a lithographic draftsman, owned his own firm, and his two older sons, George and Alexander, worked there. Tupper's brother undertook the first printing of The Germ (The Pre-Raphaelite magazine) and, subsequently, its publication (largely, one suspects, to provide their brother wi