Dinah Craik
Dinah Maria Craik was an English novelist and poet.
Mulock was born at StokeonTrent to Dinah and Thomas Mulock and raised in NewcastleunderLyme, Staffordshire, where her father was then minister of a small congregation. Her childhood and early youth were much affected by his unsettled fortunes, but she obtained a good education from various quarters and felt called to be a writer.
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