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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