Greenwell

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 409

Greenwell, DORA, religious poet, was born 6th December 1821 near Lanchester in Durham, and after 1848 lived in Durham. She died 29th March 1882. Amongst her works, all marked by a lofty strain of patience, Christian hope, holy confidence, and withal of deep-seated melancholy, are a volume of poems in 1848, and another in 1861; several short prose works, including The Patience of Hope, Two Friends, and a sequel, Colloquia Crucis; a Life of Lacordaire (1868), and Carmina Crucis (1869). See the Memoirs by William Dorling (1885).

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