 As a journalist he had numerous essays in the "Prospective Review", and the "National Review", of which his brother-in-law Richard Holt Hutton was editor.These compositions were collected and published in 1860 by Hutton, with a memoir; the poems and dramas were republished in 1891 by his daughter, Elizabeth Mary Roscoe.Roscoe married in 1855 Emily, daughter of William Malin of Derby.