Miss Mulock
DINAH MARIA MULOCK was born at Stoke-upon-Trent on April 20, 1826, the daughter of a minister. She died October 12, 1887.
Miss Mulock picked up a good education despite the unsettled fortunes of her father. When she was but twenty years old she bravely started for London, whiter go all English people to try their fortunes, since Dick Whittington has shown the place.
There she was greatly helped by her own personal charm and by the friendship of two men whose names are intimately connected with the book trade, Alexander Macmillan and Charles Edward Mudie. (She later married a member of the firm of Macmillan, G.L. Craik.
She began her literary ventures with stories for young people, but early won success with "The Ogilvies"; a delightful fairy story, "Alice Learmont," followed soon, as did novels, short stories, and various other forms of expression. But she will always be remembered by one book, though her popularity in her time extended to many others. "John Halifax, Gentleman," published in 1857, is read to-day as it was then, and will not fade as have the other works of its author.