“Oh, if I could live four weeks longer! but no matter, no matter!”

— Dinah Craik

Last words, after suffering a heart attack, while in a period of preparation for her adopted daughter Dorothy's wedding. (12 October 1887)

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English novelist and poet 1826–1887

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