Miss Dorothea Mary Corbould

Dorothea Mary Corbould was born on September 27, 1849, in Hammersmith, London, England, to Mary Grace Keene Corbould, sister of Punch artist Charles Keene, and Alfred Hitchens Corbould, an artist who regularly exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy. She had three younger siblings who survived into adulthood: Alfred Chantrey, an author and illustrator for Punch; Rosalind Kate, a post office superintendent; and Walton, an artist on the staff of The World who illustrated some of Corbould’s periodical fiction.

Before becoming a writer, Corbould worked as a governess for a year in 1881. She published three novels, Loyal Hearts (1883),  A Father’s Sin (1897), and When Love Speaks (1909), and a children’s book, The Complete Tale of Humpty Dumpty (1914). Corbould joined the Society of Women Journalists in 1900 and was a member until her death in 1928. She primarily wrote fiction, and much of her work appeared in North and West Country newspapers. 

Corbould died on December 15, 1928 at age 79.