黛娜·玛丽亚·穆洛克·克雷克传记

诗人的传记

1826年，黛娜·玛丽亚·穆洛克出生在特伦特河畔斯托克的朗菲尔德小屋。她的父亲是一位不信教的牧师。她从小就写诗，并帮助母亲在一所小学校教书。1831年，一家人搬到斯塔福德郡莱姆下的纽卡斯尔，她在那里就读于布兰普顿住宅学院。在1839年继承了一些财产后，他们都搬到了伦敦。黛娜继续学习一系列现代和古典语言。她的其他兴趣包括绘画和音乐。她出版的第一部作品是一首关于公主诞生的诗，发表在1841年的《斯塔福德郡广告人》上。她为孩子们写了一些故事，1849年《奥美尔维》出版了。这本小说是献给她四年前去世的母亲的。 Her career began to take off and she began to move in London literary circles. The head of the family (1852) was dedicated to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Her best known work is John Halifax, Gentleman (1857) which features Longfield, named after the cottage in which she was born, and its publication led to a new prosperity. It was printed in many editions in English and in several foreign translations. Her own favourite novel was A life for a life (1859). In 1865 she married George Lillie Craik who was a partner in the company of Macmillan, publishers. Mrs. Craik lived with her husband at Shortlands, Bromley, Kent for the rest of her life. Dinah was respected for her very generous and compassionate nature and this strength of character can be seen in the rather moralistic tone of much of her poetry, fiction and essays. She felt that true nobility was not dependent upon material wealth and this theme is well developed in John Halifax, gentleman.