Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington

Dorothy Violet Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (née Ashton; 30 July 1889 – 11 July 1956^[1]), styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943, was an English author, poet, literary editor and socialite.

^ Vita Sackville-West, ‘Wellesley , Dorothy Violet, duchess of Wellington (1889–1956)’, rev. Clare L. Taylor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 22 October 2008.

[1] Vita Sackville-West, ‘Wellesley , Dorothy Violet, duchess of Wellington (1889–1956)’, rev. Clare L. Taylor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 22 October 2008.

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