Dorothea Gerard

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DG was a novelist and romance-writer whose general conservatism co-existed with a piercing eye for relations across national and ethnic divides, for antisemitism and other forms of prejudice. She was the author, too, of an interesting social study of the pan-European officer class to be found in the Imperial army of Austria. She wrote to please herself: later independently though at first in collaboration with her less prolific elder sister, Emily . She published thirteen titles between 1892 and 1914, almost all of them with Tauchnitz editions, which meant she was aiming at the market of English speakers travelling abroad.

Milestones

9 August 1855
DG was born at New Monkland in Lanarkshire, Scotland, not far from Glasgow, the youngest but one in a family of seven in which three boys preceded four girls.
Memoirist Helen C. Black says she was born at Rochsoles
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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1888
DG 's novel Orthodox explored the gulf of separation and mutual hatred separating Jewish communities in Poland from their Christian host society.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
By early February 1914
DG published her final novel, The Waters of Lethe.
OCLC WorldCat.
British Library Catalogue.
29 September 1915
DG died, aged sixty, in Vienna, where she had been living in strict retirement.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under (Jane) Emily Gerard

Biography

Birth and Background

9 August 1855
DG was born at New Monkland in Lanarkshire, Scotland, not far from Glasgow, the youngest but one in a family of seven in which three boys preceded four girls.
Memoirist Helen C. Black says she was born at Rochsoles
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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