Isabel Don

Isabel Don
Bornc. 1854 Edit this on Wikidata
Forfar Edit this on Wikidata
DiedAugust 24, 1896 Edit this on Wikidata
Geneva Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationWriter Edit this on Wikidata
FatherWilliam Gilbert Don Edit this on Wikidata

Isabel Turnbull Sturrock Don (c. 1854 – August 24, 1896) was a Scottish writer.

Isabel Don was born c. 1854 in Forfar, the daughter of linen manufacturer William Gilbert Don. She attended Oxford University and earned first class in literature with honours but did not receive a degree because Oxford did not award degrees to women until 1920. She was an assistant at Somerville Hall and was the second principal of Aberdare Hall.

Don wrote several novels and a history of Holland. Her novel Only Clärchen (1891) is a Cinderella story featuring an English woman, Clare Melville, in Hungary.

Isabel Don died on 24 August 1896 in Geneva.

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  7. ↑ Allibone, Samuel Austin (1891). A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the nineteenth century. Containing over forty-six thousand articles (authors) with forty indexes of subjects. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott company.