The Fairy Book - The Best Popular Fairy Stories Selected and ... by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik6/10/2023 They adopted a foundling baby girl, Dorothy, in 1869.Īt Shortlands, near Bromley, Kent, while preparing for Dorothy's wedding, Craik died of heart failure on 12 October 1887, aged 61. In 1865, she married George Lillie Craik, a partner with Alexander Macmillan in the publishers Macmillan & Company, and nephew of George Lillie Craik. Introduced by Camilla Toulmin to Westland Marston, she rapidly made friends in London and found great encouragement for her stories for the young. She arrived in London about 1846, at much the same time as two friends, Alexander Macmillan and Charles Edward Mudie. Her childhood and early youth were affected by his unsettled fortunes, but she gained a good education from various quarters and felt called to be a writer. Mulock was born at Stoke-on-Trent to Dinah and Thomas Mulock and raised in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, where her father was minister of a small independent nonconformist congregation. She is best remembered for her novel, John Halifax, Gentleman, which presents the mid-Victorian ideals of English middle-class life. Craik 20 April 1826 – 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. Dinah Maria Craik ( / k r eɪ k/ born Dinah Maria Mulock, often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs.
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