Mrs. Craik

A Sidney Lee által kiadott «Dictionary of national biography» (39. k. 280.1. London, 1894. Smith Elder et comp.) adatai szerint. Mulock Dinah Mária 1826 ápr. 20-án született Stoke-upon-Trent-ben (Straffordshire). Atyja, Mulock Tamás egy kis gyülekezet lelkésze volt. Dinah gyermekkora és...

Introduction The Early Life oj John Halijax is retold from John Halifax, Gentleman, which was first published in 1857. Its authoress, Mrs Craik (alsó called Dinah Mulock), lived from 1826 to 1887. No other book of hers is still widely read. This story covers the years from about 1790 to 1800. For...

CHAPTER I " Get out o' Mr. Fletcher's road, ye idle, lounging, little--" "Vagabond," I think the woman (Sally Watkins, once my nurse) was going to say, but she changed her mind. My father and I both glanced round, surprised at her unusual reticence of epithets : but when the lad addressed...