The Dop Doctor

Clothilde Augusta Inez Mary Graves (1863-1932), was the daughter of Major W. H. Graves and Antoinette Dean of Harwich. Convent educated in Lourdes, she converted to Catholicism and embarked on a literary career. She was a successful London and New York playwright who enjoyed considerable literary acclaim in the first decades of the 20th century. In 1910, under the pseudonym of Richard Dehan, she published The Dop Doctor. The story hinges around a drunken and disgraced medic who eventually makes his way to South Africa where he redeems his honour at the siege of Mafeking. Her other works include: Dragon's Teeth (1891), Between Two Thieves (1912), Maids in a Market Garden (1912), The Cost of Wings and Other Stories (1914), The Man of Iron (1915), Off Sandy Hook (1915), Earth To Earth (1916), Gilded Vanity (1916), Under the Hermes and Other Stories (1917), The Just Steward (1922), The Pipers of the Market Place (1924), The Sower of the Wind (1927), Shallow Seas (1930) and Dead Pearls: A N