Dora Greenwell

GREENWELL, Dorothy [Dora]. b. Greenwell Ford, Lanchester, County Durham, 6 December 1821; d. Clifton, Bristol, 29 March 1882. She was the only daughter of the five children of William Thomas Greenwell, a country squire, magistrate and deputy lieutenant, and his wife, Dorothy Smales Greenwell. In 1847, her father lost his fortune and the ancestral home had to be sold. The family moved to Ovingham, Northumberland, where one of the sons, William Greenwell (1820-1918), was a clergyman. In Northumberland, Dora Greenwell became friends with Josephine Grey (1828-1906), later Josephine Butler, who influenced her theology, especially in relation to social activism. During this period she published...