About the Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock, also often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik) was an English novelist and poet. She was born at Stoke-on-Trent and brought up in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
After the death of her mother in 1845, Dinah Maria Mulock settled in London about 1846. She was determined to obtain a livelihood by her pen, and, beginning with fiction for children, advanced steadily until placed in the front rank of the women novelists of her day. She is best known for the novel John Halifax, Gentleman (1856). She followed this with A Life for a Life (1859), which she considered to be the best of her novels, and several other works. She also published some poetry, narratives of tours in Ireland and Cornwall, and A Woman's Thoughts about Women (1858).
She married George Lillie Craik a partner with Alexander Macmillan in the publishing house of Macmillan & Company, and nephew of George Lillie Craik, in 1864. They adopted a foundling baby girl, Dorothy, in 1869.
At Shortlands, near Bromley, Kent, while in a period of preparation for Dorothy's wedding, she died of heart failure on 12 October 1887, aged 61. Her last words were reported to have been: "Oh, if I could live four weeks longer! but no matter, no matter!" Her final book, An Unknown Country, was published by Macmillan in 1887, the year of her death.
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Paperback, Published in Sep 2015 by Forgotten Books
ISBN10: 1330050398 | ISBN13: 9781330050392
Page count: 312
Excerpt from The Ogilvies, Vol. 2: A Novel
Amidst all, in spite of all, sounds in the rich man's ear the low awful whisper, "Thou must come away."
Life is to the young an ever-renewed fountain of hope; and Philip Wychnor, when he arose from his sickness, was by no means so disconsolate as might have been expected. Under the hardest circumstances there is always a vague happiness in the first dawn of returning health. As the poor invalid managed to walk to the window, and sit watching as much of a glorious autumn sunset as that fortunate elevation permitted, there was a patient content on his pale face which made the cross-grained old landlady say quite tenderly when she brought him his tea and toast -
"Dear heart alive! - how nice and well you are a-looking to-day, sir!"
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