The name "Dora Greenwell" was for many years supposed to be the pseudonym of a writer of rare spiritual insight and fine poetic genius.
12 Facts About Dora Greenwell
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Dorothy Greenwell was born 6 December 1821 at the family estate called Greenwell Ford in Lanchester, County Durham, England.
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Dora Greenwell's father was William Thomas Greenwell, a respected and popular magistrate and deputy lieutenant.
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Dora Greenwell was known as Dora to avoid confusion with her mother.
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Dora Greenwell had three younger brothers: Francis Greenwell, Alan Greenwell and Henry Nicholas Greenwell.
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When Dora Greenwell left the Lancashire rectory for her native county, she was 33 years old.
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Dora Greenwell moved to Durham with her brother William who would later become Canon of Durham Cathedral.
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Dora Greenwell was destined to become an accomplished essayist, and to produce some prose works which claimed a very high place among books of a deeply thoughtful and spiritual kind.
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Dora Greenwell was often compared to Christina Rossetti, and dedicated a book to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Dora Greenwell wrote biographies of French priest Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire and American Quaker John Woolman.
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Dora Greenwell visited friends for a few years in Torquay and Clifton, and then moved to London in 1874.
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Dora Greenwell died on the evening of Wednesday, 29 March 1882, and was buried in Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol.