Background
She was born at Charleston, South Carolina, but moved early in her life to New York City, then to Rutland, Vermont.
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Career
Seneca M. Dorr. Her half-brothers were Edward H. Ripley and William Y. West. Ripley, both prominent officers in the American Civil War. Her earliest published writings appeared in 1848. She wrote:
Isabel Leslie (1848)
Farmingdale (1854)
Lanmere (1856)
Sybil Huntingdon (1869)
Expiation (1872)
Bermuda (1884)
The Flower of England"s Face (1895)
A Cathedral Pilgrimage (1896)
In King"s Houses (1898)
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Dorr is best known, however, for volumes of thoughtful verse.
A collected edition of her poems appeared in 1892. Poems (1871)
Friar Anselm and Other Poems (1879)
Daybreak: An Easter Poem (1872)
Afternoon Songs (1885)
Afterglow (1900)
Beyond the Sunset (1909)
Last Poems (1913).
