Julia C. R. Dorr › Recommendations

Born: Feb­ru­ary 13, 1825, Charles­ton, South Car­o­li­na.
Died: Jan­u­a­ry 18, 1913, Rut­land, Ver­mont, at her home, The Ma­ples.
Buried: Ev­er­green Cem­e­te­ry, Ru­tland, Ver­mont.

Pseudonym: Car­o­line Tho­mas.

Daughter of Will­iam Young Rip­ley, Julia lost her mo­ther as a child. In 1830 her fa­ther took her to Ver­mont, where she was ed­u­cat­ed. She be­gan writ­ing po­et­ry at an ear­ly age, but did not publ­ish an­y­thing un­til two years af­ter her 1847 mar­ri­age to Sen­e­ca M. Dorr, a prom­i­nent New York law­yer and bank­er.

After her mar­ri­age, Ju­lia con­trib­ut­ed to mag­a­zines, main­ly po­e­try, with an oc­ca­sion­al short sto­ry. She count­ed among her friends writ­ers such as Ralph Wal­do Em­ers­on, James Russ­ell Low­ell, Ju­lia Ward Howe, Rich­ard Wat­son Gild­er, and Ol­iv­er Wen­dell Holmes. She car­ried on a cor­res­pon­dence with Holmes for over 20 years.

Dorr’s works in­clude:

Farmingdale, 1854
A Ca­thed­ral Pil­grim­age
Bermuda. An Idyl of the Sum­mer Is­lands
Bride and Bride­groom. A Ser­ies of Let­ters to a Young Mar­ried Couple
Friar An­sel­mo and Other Po­ems
The Le­gend of the Ba­bouh­ka
Lanmere
Sybil Hunt­ing­ton
Expiation
The Fal­low Field

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