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Bessie Dill
1861–1936
A Scottish-born novelist and poet who also wrote as L. Beith Dalziel, she moved from work as a governess into a long writing career. Her fiction includes historical storytelling such as The Silver Glen, a Jacobite-era novel later preserved by Project Gutenberg.
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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 in Yorkshire and then in London before building her literary career.
She published under both Bessie Dill and the pseudonym L. Beith Dalziel. Reference sources connect her with novels and poetry, including The Story of Bell (1896), The Final Goal (1899), and The Lords of Life (1901).
She died in 1936. One of her best-known surviving works today is The Silver Glen, a historical novel set around the Jacobite rising of 1715 and now available through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep her work accessible to modern readers.