Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

1826–1887 · English novelist and poet

Dinah Maria Craik, born Dinah Maria Mulock and often credited as “Miss Mulock” or “Mrs. Craik,” was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for John Halifax, Gentleman (1857). Her next major novel, A Life for a Life (1859), made more money and may have been more widely read in its day.

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“Oh, the comfort—the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person—having neither to weigh thoughts, nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away”

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