was the personal touch it gave her with the English poet, William Watson. In 1884, the year of her husband's death, Dorr became the leader of a group of women who founded the Rutland Free Library. She served as president of the association, and gave to the library, in memory of her husband, what was said to be the finest and most complete collection of books on political science to be found in New England at the time, and one of the best in the English-speaking world outside of the University of Cambridge. She died January 18, 1913. Selected works Prose Isabel Leslie (1848) short story Farmingdale (1854) novel Lanmere (1856) novel Sybil Huntingdon (1869) novel Expiation (1872) novel Bride and Bridegroom (1873) – described as "sentimental advice to married young couples" Bermuda – An Idyll of the Summer Islands (1884) travel The Flower of England's Face (1895) travel A Cathedral Pilgrimage (1896) travel In King's Houses (1898) novel – a story of England under Queen Anne Poetry Poems (1871) Friar Anselmo and Other Poems (1879) Daybreak: An Easter Poem (1872) The Legend of the Baboushka – A Christmas poem (1881) Afternoon Songs (1885) Poems...Complete Edition (1892) Afterglow (1900) Beyond the Sunset (1909) Last Poems'' (1913) References Attribution Bibliography External links Various poems by Julia Dorr 1825 births 1913 deaths 19th-century American novelists 19th-century American poets 19th-century American women writers American women poets American women novelists Writers from Charleston, South Carolina People from Rutland (town), Vermont American travel writers American essayists American women travel writers American women essayists American letter writers Women letter writers Novelists from South Carolina Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century