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Life
1889-1956 [née Ashton; Lady Gerald Wellington; Duchess of Wellington]; b. Berkshire, England; d. Sussex; m. 7th Duke of Wellington, 1914 - he being a descendent of Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke and victor at Waterloo; she worked as an editor at Hogarth Press and wrote on travel, gardening and other subject besides her published collections; left her husband and 2 children for Vita Sackville-West; included prominently in Yeats’s edn. of Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935 (1936) - presumably for the Wellesley connection; also listed as Irish in New Cambridge Bibl. of English Literature (ed. George Watson, 1971).
Works incl. Early Poems (1913), Pride (1923), Lost Lane (1925), Genesis: An Impression (1926), Matrix (1928), Deserted House (1930), Jupiter and the Nun (1932),Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley, with an introduction by William Butler Yeats (1936), Lost Planet (1942), The Poets (1943), Desert Wells (1946), Rhymes for Middle Years (1954), and Early Light: The Collected Poems (1955). Also Sir George Goldie, Founder of Nigeria (1934), Poems of Ten Years, 1924–1934 (1934), and Far Have I Travelled (1952), an autobiography.
Belfast Central Library 1950 Cat. holds Pride and Other Poems (1923).
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