DINAH MARIA See also:CRAIK (1826-1887)
, See also:English novelist, better known by her See also:maiden name of See also:Mulock, and still better as " the author of See also:John See also:Halifax, See also:Gentleman," was the daughter of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Mulock, an See also:eccentric religious enthusiast of Irish extraction, and was See also:born on the loth of See also:April 1826 at Stoke-upon-See also:Trent, in See also:Staffordshire, where her See also:father was the See also:minister of a small See also:congregation
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She settled in See also:London about 1846, deter-See also:mined to obtain a livelihood by her See also:pen, and, beginning with fiction for See also:children, advanced steadily until John Halifax, Gentleman (1857), placed her in the front See also:rank of the See also:women novelists of her See also:day
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A See also:Life for a Life (1859), though inferior, maintained a high position, but she afterwards wrote little of importance except some very charming tales for children
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Her most remarkable novels, after those mentioned above, were The Ogilvies (1849), See also:Olive (1850), The See also:Head of the See also:Family (1851), See also:Agatha's See also:Husband (1853)
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There is much See also:passion and See also:power in these See also:early See also:works, and all that Mrs See also:Craik wrote was characterized by high principle and deep feeling
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Some of the See also:short stories in Avillion and other Tales also exhibit a See also:fine See also:imagination
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She published some poems distinguished by genuine lyrical spirit, narratives of See also:tours in See also:Ireland and See also:Cornwall, and A Woman's Thoughts about Women
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She married Mr G
.
L
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Craik, a partner in the See also:house of See also:Macmillan & See also:Company, in 1864, and died at Short-lands, near See also:Bromley, See also:Kent, on the 12th of See also:October 1887
.
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