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Bessie Dill
1861–1936
A Scottish novelist who moved from governess work into fiction, she wrote historical and popular novels and is now best remembered for The Silver Glen. She first published under the pen name L. Beith Dalziel before returning to her own name.
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The Silver Glen : A story of the rebellion of 1715
by Bessie Dill
About the author
Born in Colmonell, Scotland, in 1861, she was the daughter of the minister William Dill and his wife Margaret. After her schooling, she worked as a governess, first in Yorkshire and later in London, before turning seriously to fiction.
In the 1890s she began publishing under the pseudonym L. Beith Dalziel, then later dropped the pen name and wrote as Bessie Dill. Confirmed titles include The Final Goal (1899), The Lords of Life (1901), and the historical novel The Silver Glen: A Story of the Rebellion of 1715, which is the work most easily found by modern readers.
She eventually returned to Scotland, never married, and died in Penninghame in 1936. No suitable verified portrait image was found from the sources reviewed, so a profile image is not included here.