William Dorling

Presumably white, DG was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as...

This work was praised by her close family and by friends William Knight and Jean Ingelow , but DG avowed that she was pained . . . by the absence of any public notice.

During her youth DG maintained a notebook that she informally titled Stray Leaves. According to her biographer, William Dorling , this journal contains her thoughts on events and literature, as well as some of...

Throughout her life she was an active correspondent. Excerpts of her letters have been reprinted in Dorling 's biography.

DG produced a collection of essays in 1866, published with her name. These were largely reprinted from her writings in the North British Review.