Camilla Crosland

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Though most prolific as a poet, CC also published short stories, novels, music lyrics, translations, essays, and memoirs in a career that spanned the last sixty years of the nineteenth century. Her work was frequently published in annuals and after several years as a contributor she also undertook editorial work for several of these publications. Writing to support herself and her family, she addressed almost any topic for which she could be paid. Although critics often see her writing as commercial and conventional as opposed to inspired and original,
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her extensive and varied oeuvre still holds interest for students of Victorian literature.

Milestones

9 June 1812

Camilla Dufour Toulmin (later CC ) was born in Aldermanbury, near St Paul's Cathedral, in London, the elder of two children.
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16 February 1895

CC died at her home in East Dulwich after several years of difficult illness.
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23 February 1895

CC 's final publication, an essay on Politeness, was printed in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal; an advance copy had been delivered to her home on the day of her death.
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Biography

Birth and Family

9 June 1812

Camilla Dufour Toulmin (later CC ) was born in Aldermanbury, near St Paul's Cathedral, in London, the elder of two children.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 30
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.