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1871 Rare Early Edition and an Antique Book \"Miss Mulock\'s Works A Noble Life\" British Authoress Dinah CRAIK Known in her literary social circle in London as having a Very Large Heart and being a genuinely cordial individual.
\"Many years ago, how many need not be recorded, there lived in his ancestral castle, in the far north of Scotland, the last Earl of Cairnforth.\" Charles Edward Stuart Montgomerie, The last earl of Cairnforth, Died……Aged 43 years. \"Thy will be done on earth as it is inheaven\"Dinah CraikFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDinah Craik1887 portrait byHubert von HerkomerBornDinah Maria Mulock
April 26, 1826
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, EnglandDied12 October 1887(aged61)
ShortlandsPen nameMrs. Craik, Miss MulockGenreNovels and poetrySpouseGeorge Lillie Craik

Dinah Maria Craik(/kreɪk/; bornDinah Maria Mulock, also often credited asMiss MulockorMrs. Craik) (20 April 1826– 12 October 1887) was anEnglish novelist and poet.

Contents[hide]

• 1Life
• 2Works
• 3Reception
• 4Bibliography
  • 4.1Tales and sketches
  • 4.2Early poems
• 5References
• 6External links

Life[edit]

Mulock was born atStoke-on-Trentto Dinah and Thomas Mulock and raised inNewcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, where her father was then minister of a small independent non-conformist congregation.[1]Her childhood and early youth were much affected by his unsettled fortunes, but she obtained a good education from various quarters and felt called to be a writer.[clarification needed][2]

She came to London about 1846, much at the same time as two friends,Alexander MacmillanandCharles Edward Mudie. Introduced byCamilla ToulmintoWestland Marston, she rapidly made friends in London, and found great encouragement for the stories for the young. In 1865 she married George Lillie Craik a partner withAlexander Macmillanin the publishing house ofMacmillan & Company, and nephew ofGeorge Lillie Craik. They adopted afoundlingbaby girl, Dorothy, in 1869.

AtShortlands, nearBromley, Kent, while in a period of preparation for Dorothy\'s wedding, she died ofheart failureon 12 October 1887, aged 61. Herlast wordswere 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. Dorothy married Alexander Pilkington in 1887 but they divorced in 1911 and she went on to marry Captain Richards of Macmine Castle. She and Alexander had just one son John Mulock Pilkington. John married Freda Roskelly and they had a son and daughter.

Works[edit]

Mulock\'s early success began with the novelCola Monti(1849), and in the same year she produced her firstthree-volume novel,The Ogilvies,to great success. It was followed in 1850 byOlive, then byThe Head of the Familyin 1851 andAgatha\'s Husbandin 1853, in which the author used her recollections ofEast Dorset. Mulock published the fairy storyAlice Learmontin 1852, and collected numerous short stories from periodicals under the title ofAvillion and other Talesin 1853.A similar collection appeared in 1857 under the title ofNothing New.[2]

Thoroughly established in public favour as a successful author, Mulock took a cottage at Wildwood, North End,Hampstead, and joined an extensive social circle. Her personal attractions were at this period of her life considerable, and people kindly judged her simple cordiality, staunch friendliness, and thorough goodness of heart. In 1857 she published the work by which she will be principally remembered,John Halifax, Gentleman, a presentation of the ideals of English middle-class life. Mulock\'s next important work,A Life for a Life(1859), made more money and was perhaps at the time more widely read thanJohn Halifax, and was followed byMistress and Maid(1863) andChristian\'s Mistake(1865), followed by didactic works such asA Woman\'s Thoughts about WomenandSermons out of Church.Another collection, titledThe Unkind Word and Other Stories, included a scathing criticism ofBenjamin Heath Malkinfor overworking his son Thomas, achild prodigywho died at seven. Later on, Craik returned to more fanciful tales and achieved a great success withThe Little Lame Prince(1874). In 1881 she published a collection of her earlier poems under the titlePoems of Thirty Years, New and Old; some, such asPhilip my Kingaddressed to her godsonPhilip Bourke MarstonandDouglas, Douglas, Tender and Trueachieved a wide popularity.[2]

Reception[edit]

Richard Garnett holds that \"the genuine passion that filled her early works of fiction had not unnaturally faded out of middle life,\" replaced bydidacticismand helping to increase self-awareness. Garnett judges Craik\'s poetry as \"a woman\'s poems, tender, domestic, and sometimes enthusiastic, always genuine song, and the product of real feeling.\"[3]

A woman\'s thoughts about women. By the author of \"John Halifax, gentleman\"byDinah Maria Mulock Craik68 editions published between1858and 2010 inEnglishandGermanand held by 466 WorldCat member libraries worldwideDinah Craik (1826-1887) was a prolific writer of fiction, poetry and essays. She was best known for her novels, which appropriated well-worked narratives of individuals triumphing over adversity through hard work and moral integrity against a backdrop of industrialisation and the ascent of the middle classes. The most successful, John Halifax, Gentleman, tells the tale of a boy who works his way out of poverty. Craik herself was familiar with hardship: her father Thomas Mulock, a nonconformist minister, had spent periods confined to a lunatic asylum, and abandoned his children after his wife\'s death in 1854. In this work (originally published serially in Chambers\'s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts), Craik provided support and advice for single women like herself. She was highly critical of learned helplessness and advocated independence and cross-class sympathy, believing women should \'lead active, intelligent, industrious lives: lives complete in themselves\'PoemsbyDinah Maria Mulock Craik( Book )67 editions published between1852and 2011 inEnglishandUndeterminedand held by 331 WorldCat member libraries worldwideA noble lifebyDinah Maria Mulock Craik( Book )67 editions published between1855
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