Dora Wilcox

[1] She was educated privately and at Canterbury College, before spending three years teaching in Armidale, New South Wales.

She had been publishing work in periodicals, including the Sydney Bulletin, since the age of twelve, and made the move to Australia according to an "old friend" and obituary writer "to seek her literary fortune".

She had by that time met and married the Melbourne writer and art critic William Moore (1868–1937), with whom she later set up home in Sydney.

[3] She continued to publish verse, many articles of historical and literary interest and several plays which were produced and won prizes.

[6] She was well known in Australian literary and art circles and often an invited speaker at events in Sydney.