Dorothy Wellesley
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, writing in the earlier twentieth century, published a dozen volumes of poetry. She was also an editor of contemporary poetry, a letter-writer, critic, biographer and autobiographer. Her association first with the
and later with
helped to give her a high profile. Her poetry typically looks back from the modern world, either to ancient history and prehistory, or to her own childhood. She voices a strong feeling for the natural world and a philosophic questioning about origins and principles.
- BirthName: Dorothy Violet Ashton
- Nickname: Dottie
- Married: WellesleyHer husband, as a duke's son, also had a courtesy title: he was Lord Gerald, and the socially correct form of her name was Lady Gerald Wellesley from the time of her marriage until his coming into the dukedom. Virginia Woolf uses this form in the acknowledgements preceding Orlando.
- Pseudonym: M. A.
- Styled: Lady; Lady Dorothy WellesleyShe acquired the courtesy title of Lady Dorothy on her mother's remarriage to an earl.
- Titled: Duchess of WellingtonSelected Poems, 1949.added her title in brackets to her usual authorial form of her name on her
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