Julia Caroline Dorr (1825–1913) was an American author who published both prose and poetry. She was born at Charleston, South Carolina

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, but moved early in her life to New York City

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, then to Rutland, Vermont

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. There she married Hon. Seneca R. Dorr. 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)

Mrs. 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)

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