b. 30 January 1876. d. 3 October 1963. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and editor. Pseudonym: “Eva D.” Daughter of Clarence Mason Dobell, and niece
of Sydney Dobell. Born in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire. Wrote about her experiences
while serving as a volunteer nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment during World
War I, and also wrote poems about her native Gloucestershire. Author of *Songs and
Sonnets* (1904). Editor of *A Poet’s Return: Some Later Poems of Lady Margaret Sackville*
(1940). Author identified from *Chambers’s Journal* ledger entry for “The Cotswold
Hills,” published on 22 July 1899, which lists the poet as Miss E. Dobell, of The
Grove, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham (NLS Dep 341/371). Additional biographical information:
*Wikipedia*, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Dobell> (27 January 2022). (AC, CC)