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Dorothea Ponsonby
1876–1963
A writer moving in some of Britain’s most interesting literary and artistic circles, she left behind work shaped by close ties to the Llewelyn Davies and du Maurier families. Her life also connected music, politics, and society through her family background and marriage into the Ponsonby family.
1 Audiobook
Rebels and Reformers: Biographies for Young People
by Baron Arthur Ponsonby Ponsonby, Dorothea Ponsonby
About the author
Born Dorothea Parry in London on 13 January 1876, she was the daughter of the composer Sir Hubert Parry. She later married Arthur Ponsonby, who became Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, and she wrote under the name Dorothea Ponsonby.
She is remembered as an English writer and as a figure closely connected with the Llewelyn Davies and du Maurier families, placing her near the heart of a lively cultural world in late Victorian and early 20th-century Britain. Her surviving work includes books such as Rebels and Reformers: Biographies for Young People, written with Arthur Ponsonby.
Dorothea Ponsonby died on 11 July 1963. Although she is not as widely known today as some of the people around her, her life offers an appealing glimpse into the social and literary networks of her time.