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DINAH MARIA 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, Gentleman," was the daughter of See also: Thomas Mulock, an eccentric religious enthusiast of Irish extraction, and was
See also: born on the loth of See also: April 1826 at Stoke-upon-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 passion and power in these early See also: works, and all that Mrs 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
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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 Bromley, Kent, on the 12th of See also: October 1887
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