“I was born beneath quiet hills, among green pastures, beside still…” — Dorothy Greenwell

“I was born beneath quiet hills, among green pastures, beside still waters. My first companion was a little stream, my earliest counsellor an ancient Book.”

Evoking the formative influences of landscape and scripture · Autobiographical remark

Dorothy Greenwell

About Dorothy Greenwell

6 December 1821–29 March 1882

In the pantheon of Victorian literature, where names like Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold dominate the landscape, the voice of Dorothy "Dora" Greenwell emerges as both distinctive and revelatory. Born into the rolling hills of County Durham on December 6, 1821, and departing this world on March 29, 1882, in Clifton…

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