Dora Richards Miller

Dora Richards Miller (1842–1914) was a Danish West Indies-born American author and educator.

[1] She was graduated with distinction, her school-girl essays having for several years attracted attention, and the editors of a New Orleans paper invited her to contribute to their journal.

She had prepared herself for the profession of a teacher and undertaken the support and education of a young brother, and thought it best to give all her powers to that work.

Troubles resulting from the civil war caused the breaking up of her family, and some of their experiences during the siege of Vicksburg are recounted in her articles published in The Century Magazine, entitled "Diary of a Union Woman in the Siege of Vicksburg" and "Diary of a Union Woman in the South".

[1] In 1889, she wrote, in collaboration with George Washington Cable, "The Haunted House on Royal Street", being science teacher in the high school held in that building when it was invaded by the White League.