Dinah maria mulock craik biography of nancy

          Maria Mulock (also known as Mrs. Craik), with whom Eliot was compared early in her career.3 Mulock is an example of a woman who, in spite of a....

          Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Mulock, Dinah Maria

          ​MULOCK, DINAH MARIA, afterwards Mrs.

          Craik (1826–1887), authoress, daughter of Thomas Mulock and his wife Dinah, was born on 20 April 1826 at Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, where her father was then minister of a small congregation. Her childhood and early youth were much affected by his unsettled fortunes; but she obtained a good education from various quarters, and, feeling conscious of a vocation for author- ship, came to London about 1846, much at the same time as two friends whose assistance was afterwards of the greatest service to her, Alexander Macmillan and Charles Edward Mudie [q.

          Title, Nothing New: Tales, Volume 2.

        1. The Mellards & their descendants, including the Bibbys of Liverpool, with memoirs of Dinah Maria Mulock & Thomas Mellard Reade-book.
        2. Maria Mulock (also known as Mrs. Craik), with whom Eliot was compared early in her career.3 Mulock is an example of a woman who, in spite of a.
        3. Scholars have had a difficult time assessing the significance of Dinah Mulock Craik (–), best remembered as the author of John.
        4. Dinah Mulock Craik: A Brief Biography.

          5. v.] Introduced by Miss Camilla Toulmin to the acquaintance of Westland Marston [q. v.], she rapidly made friends in London, and found great encouragement for the stories for the young to which she at first confined herself, of which 'Cola Monti' (1849) was the best known.

          In the same year she produced her first three-vo