Abstract
While Dinah Maria Mulock Craik is often classified with Charlotte Mary Yonge as a “Christian lady novelist” of the nineteenth century, the reductive meanings which may be derived from that category are easily overturned by her complicated and adventurous life, non-traditional marriage and motherhood. Craik's unpublished diaries offer intimate glimpses of the strategic or tactical feminism of her daily life, which was similar to that of many women today with its braided strands of work, motherhood and marriage. They also give compelling sketches of events that are both personally and historically interesting, such as her assistance with William Holman Hunt's elopement with his deceased wife's sister and, later, with his recuperation from typhoid fever.
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