I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

He and Frank Leslie separated in 1860. Second wife
When the editor of Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine had fallen ill the then Miriam Folline Squier volunteered to fill in and the ill editor still received the salary. He contributed sketches to the Illustrated London News signing them as Frank Leslie to insure his anonymity.

Frank Leslie (March 29 1821 – January 10 1880) was an English-born American engraver illustrator and publiFrank Leslier of family periodicals.