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Victorian

Dinah Maria Craik

1826–1887

Dinah Maria Craik (1826–1887), born Dinah Maria Mulock in Stoke-on-Trent, was a novelist and poet, best known for the novel John Halifax, Gentleman (1856). In 1865 she married George Lillie Craik.

Her poems, which appeared in volumes from 1859, include the tender cradle-song “Philip, my King”; three of them are in Women Poets of the Victorian Era (1890).

Poems (20)

  1. Rothesay Bay
  2. Semper Fidelis
  3. Philip my King
  4. Too Late
  5. A Silly Song
  6. The Human Temple: The Temple in Darkness
  7. The Human Temple: A Light in the Temple
  8. Green Things Growing
  9. Four Years
  10. The Dead Czar Nicholas
  11. Lettice
  12. Plighted
  13. In Our Boat
  14. Now and Afterwards
  15. Her Likeness
  16. Buried To-day
  17. A Lancashire Doxology
  18. An Honest Man
  19. A "Mercenary" Marriage
  20. By the Alma River

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