Kate "Kitty" Marion Cordeux (1862 – 6 October 1962) was a British novelist. She wrote three novels in the 19th century under the name Daniel Dormer and three under her own name in the 20th century. Kitty Cordeux was born in 1862 in

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, the daughter of John Cordeux, a draper. In 1926, she began a persistent letter-writing campaign urging the BBC to broadcast daily Christian religious services on the radio. The result was ''

The Daily Service ''The Daily Service'' is a short Christian service broadcast every weekday morning between 09:45 and 10:00 on BBC Radio 4's long wave and DAB frequencies. It was also broadcast on Radio 4's FM frequencies until 13 September 1991. In 1926, Briti ...

,'' beginning in 1928 and continuing to the present day. Her campaign was documented in the

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documentary ''The Lady Behind the Daily Service'' (2005). Kitty Cordeux died on 6 October 1962 in

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Bibliography

* ''Out of the Mists''. 1 vol. Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1886. * ''The Mesmerist's Secret''. 1 vol. London: John Maxwell, 1888. * ''Steven Vigil''. 2 vol. London: Chapman and Hall, 1891. * ''The Romance of Mary the Blessed''. Mowbray, 1917. * ''The King's Tryst.'' Robert Scott, 1930. * ''A Garland for Ashes.'' Skeffington, 1930.

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