Dorothy Boulger born Dorothy Henrietta Havers and wrote under the name Theo Gift (30 May 1846 – 22 July 1923) was a British writer and novelist.
Life
Boulger was born in
Lambeth
Lambeth () is a district in South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth, historically in the County of Surrey. It is situated south of Charing Cross. The population of the London Borough of Lambeth was 303,086 in 2011. The area expe ...
, Surrey on the 30 May 1846. She was one of four children born to
Thomas Havers
Thomas Havers was a British businessman and architect, active in the Falkland Islands and Uruguay in the middle of the 19th century. He is noted for designing the ''Mercado Central de Montevideo'' (Montevideo Central Market).[Thelveton
Thelveton (historically Thelton, earlier Telvetun) is a village in the English county of Norfolk.
History
The village of Thelveton was recorded in the Domesday book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – ...]
in
Norfolk and his first wife Ellen Ruding.
One of her sisters became the artist
Alice Havers
Alice Mary Celestine Havers (her name before marriage and professionally), married name Alice Mary Morgan (1850 – 26 August 1890 London), was an English painter and illustrator.
Life
Alice Mary Havers was the third daughter and youngest of f ...
, who married the painter
Frederick Morgan. Thomas occupied himself in company clerking and administration and in early 1854 accepted a post as a manager of the
Falkland Islands Company in the
Falkland Islands. He took his wife and children with him along with a governess, Mary Coppinger and a nurse.
The three sisters and brother were in the Falkland Islands until 1860. Their mother Ellen, died there in October 1854 about eight months after their arrival and Thomas remarried a year later in October 1855 to the governess, Mary Coppinger. In 1860 Thomas was relieved of his position in the Falklands and found a new post with new employers in
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
, relocating his family there. Upon Thomas' death in Montevideo in March 1870, his children by Ellen, now young adults and four younger children by Mary, all returned to England in April and May of the same year.
She began her writing for magazines in 1871, enjoying a two-year run of stories with
Cassell's Family Magazine
''Cassell's Magazine'' is a British magazine that was published monthly from 1897 to 1912. It was the successor to ''Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper'', (1853–1867) becoming ''Cassell's Family Magazine'' in 1874, ''Cassell's Magazine'' in 1897 ...
edited by the novelist
G. Manville Fenn and a decade with the periodical ''
All the Year Round'' edited by
Charles Dickens Jr.
Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (6 January 1837 – 20 July 1896) was the first child of the English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. A failed businessman, he became the editor of his father's magazine '' All the Year Round'', and a ...
[ She wrote her first novel, ''True to her Trust'', or, ''Womanly Past Question'' which was a romance in 1874.
Her sister Alice Havers illustrated some of her stories.][ Another two of her books are interesting because they are set in the Falkland Isles. Her story includes the alcoholism and over-enthusiastic missionaries but again the narrative revolves around heroic women. Her last book was dated 1901.
Boulger died in South Kensington, Middlesex on 22 July 1923.
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Private life
She married George Simonds Boulger
George Simonds Boulger (1853–1922) was an English botanist. Boulger wrote articles as the Kew Gardens Correspondent of ''The Times'', and other works on botany and natural history.
Life
George Boulger was born at Bletchingly, Surrey, the son o ...
, a botanist, in 1879.['' The Times'', Friday, May 05, 1922; Issue 43023; pg. 18; col C — "The Times" Botanist. Death Of Professor G. S. Boulger.]
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Attribution
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1846 births
1923 deaths
People from Thelveton
19th-century British novelists
19th-century British women writers
British women novelists